The year is 2011. Your back has been bothering you for a few weeks now, so you make an appointment to see your doctor. You get called from the waiting room (yes, those unfortunately still exist) into the exam room.
A few minutes later, you explain to your doctor: “Doc, my low back hasbeen really painful for the last 2 and a half weeks…”. While typing on his computer, he interrupts: “back pain huh? No problem.”
He hands you a printout from the computer. It’s a referral to see a nutritionist. Perplexed, you say: “a nutritionist? Maybe you didn’t here me the first time-I said my back hurt.” “I heard you perfectly”, says your doctor.
“The literature over the last few years has been overwhelmingly in favor of nutrition as an effective treatment for all types of pain. In fact, it works much better than all those old treatments that we used to use.”
Interested, but still skeptical, you say: “but how do you even know what’s causing my back to hurt? You didn’t even do a physical exam or an MRI”. “Turns out MRIs, CAT scans and the like are a big waste of money”, responds your doctor. He concludes: “Turns out they did much more harm than good.
Nowadays we know that the underlying cause of all back pain, from sciatica to herniated discs, is due to inflammation-something that no exam or machine can detect.”
Understandably confused, you press him: “how is nutrition going to help me with my back ache?”.
He responds: “Because we now know the root cause of all pain is inflammation, our #1 priority is reducing inflammation. The best way to do that is to tweak your diet”.
Two weeks and two meetings with the nutritionist later, your back feels better than it has in years. You’re surprised to find that just one food in your diet was causing 90% of your back pain.
Eliminating that one problem food and adding two healing foods made your lower back pain quickly disappear.
The Future Is Now
There is a natural latency period between when research findings are made to when the finding make their way into doctor’s offices. That lag period is happening right now with nutrition and back pain.
Scientific research clearly shows that diet can prevent, treat, and even cure back pain.
Why wait until 2011 to relieve your stubborn pain? The Back Pain Diet is an easy and practical step-by-step approach that leverages the amazing power of food to cure bad backs.
