The Best STRETCH to Stop Sciatica Pain

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to share a few natural sciatica pain remedies! The sciatic nerve is the longest and largest nerve in the body. It extends from the lower back, down the back of the leg, to the bottom of the foot.

Surgery for sciatica can cause side effects like failed back surgery syndrome. Because 90% of sciatica pain will often resolve by itself, invasive procedures are best saved as a last resort.

Sciatic pain often gets worse in the winter, which would explain why vitamin D deficiency is a major contributor. If you’re dealing with inflammation, you need high amounts of vitamin D daily.

Vitamin D is a potent anti-inflammatory and works similarly to Prednisone without the side effects. It helps to repair the nerves, disc, connective tissue, and muscles involved with sciatica.

Magnesium deficiency can also contribute to sciatica because it’s essential for keeping your muscles relaxed. You also need adequate magnesium for vitamin D to work in the body.

Vitamin B12 is involved with several aspects of the nervous system and can cause numbness, tingling, and burning pain if you’re deficient. It’s highly anti-inflammatory, and a deficiency can also contribute to sciatica.

Most people don't get enough sun, so unless you’re taking 10,000 IU of vitamin D each day, you could end up deficient. If you have sciatica, try upping your dose of vitamin D3 to 20,000 to 30,000 IU daily.

Around 800 mg of magnesium each day can be beneficial for sciatica. Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, chocolate, almonds, leafy greens, bone broth, and spinach are good food sources of magnesium.

Red meat and other animal products provide plenty of vitamin B12.

Try these simple sciatica exercises focused on stretching the fascia to say goodbye to your sciatic nerve pain!

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the three key nutrient deficiencies that are involved in Sardica,
0:04.1	and if you took these three nutrients,
0:06.3	the chances of you're getting better are pretty darn high.
0:08.4	And then at the end, I want to show you two amazing stretches that don't stretch the muscles per se. They stretch what's called
0:16.8	fascia which extends beyond the joints and these stretches are amazing because what I found is you can have scar tissue in certain areas of the
0:26.4	connective tissue around this nerve from an old injury like a fall on your tailbone
0:31.0	or anything that if you don't stretch the fascia, chances of
0:35.6	you're getting better are less than winning the lottery. The satic nerve is
0:40.0	the longest and largest nerve in the entire body. It comes out of the lower back. It goes down
0:45.4	through your buttocks on the back part of your leg all the way down to the foot. You can get
0:49.5	pain anywhere in this nerve if you have this problem. A common test that they do is they have you lie on your back
0:55.0	and they lift up the leg, it's called a straight leg razor,
0:59.0	and of course it's putting traction on this nerve
1:02.0	that's coming out of your lower back. This means that there's some type of
1:04.9	pinching going on somewhere in that nerve. Now what I don't like about the advice that
1:10.2	medical doctors give you about Sada Cap is I don't like to hear you're going to be on medication the rest of your life.
1:16.2	But if anyone tells you that, they're not telling the truth because there is so much bias in this area.
1:22.1	Unpublished studies that show bad results with
1:24.8	sadica, and of course big pharma will only selectively show you the benefits of
1:29.2	drugs. But here's the data with surgery. After one year, there really is no benefit of that surgery compared to other treatments.
1:38.2	So if someone tells you that surgery is the best option,
1:41.6	I would take a step back, look at the actual research, and you're going to find out it's not always the best option.
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