So today we're going to take a part of your body, the lower back, to be able to identify

deeper problems nutritionally. Typically when someone has low back pain, what do they do?

They treat it, right? And then they might take some medication and they go on their way.

But there's no real understanding of what's really behind this low back pain, especially if it

becomes chronic. But you can do this with any part of the body if you understand the connections.

Today we're going to focus primarily on the lower back. And we're going to emphasize the

nutritional deficiency connection to lower back pain. Now out of all the vitamins that you

can be deficient in, vitamin D is the one that will create low back pain probably more than any

other deficiency. You see vitamin D is a very powerful anti-inflammatory. And when you become

deficient in vitamin D, probably the first place you're going to notice it is in your lower back.

If an infant is deficient in vitamin D, maybe because the mom was deficient during pregnancy,

they can end up with all sorts of structural skeletal problems, like

bowed legs, flat feet, scoliosis, problems with your teeth. Chances are you might need braces to

correct an original vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is also intimately involved with bone

formation. And if you're deficient, you could develop osteoporosis, but not only osteoporosis,

osteopenia, which is kind of a milder version of osteoporosis, but also this other condition called

osteomalatio, which is a severe deficiency in children and their bones become very, very soft.

Now one thing that's related to vitamin D, you may just be deficient of vitamin D or there could be

two other minerals that are deficient that are aggravating or interfering with your

vitamin D levels in your blood. One is magnesium. In fact, you need magnesium to help you metabolize

and absorb vitamin D. Vitamin D doesn't work that well without magnesium. If you have a stiff

back or your muscles are crampy in your lower back and they can't seem to relax,

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