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Welcome, everyone, Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health, and we're going to

talk about a really

important topic that almost every single one of you have and most of you are unaware of it.

As I was about 10 years ago, when I met a friend of mine, Dr. Peter Martone, who is going to be

discussing with us some of the ways

that we can address the concern that almost every one of you have, which is degeneration of your

cervical spine, and that's the spine part that's in your neck. And about 80% of adults have it,

and I was one of those people, but not now, because I took some

corrective actions. And I was surprised I had it because I do so many things right. But due to structural

issues, if you have the wrong posture, your head weighs about 10 pounds or somewhere.

Dr. Peter will enlighten us on specifically, but if you got it bent over, that's going to decimate your cervical spine.

And it doesn't take much of a forward lean to do that.

And, you know, with time as you age, you'll cause this degeneration, which is a major problem.

So we're going to discuss that.

And let me just share with you.

I think we've, I went back to, I think, 2015, we were at an event together.

I was speaking.

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