Welcome to Nutrition Facts.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger, and I'm here to ask you, what is the most important

decision you'll make today?

Is it how you'll get to work, who you'll set up a meeting with, what friends you'll

call for lunch?

Well, as it turns out, probably the most important decision you'll make today is what to eat.

What we eat on a day-to-day basis is the number one determinant of our health and longevity.

Literally, most premature deaths in the United States are preventable and related to nutrition.

So, we're going to explore some smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts.

Here we refer to the science, the research, the available data published in the peer-reviewed

medical literature right now.

That's why I wrote my book How Not To Die and why I created my non-profit site NutritionFacts.org.

And now, this podcast.

Today we get a bit nervy and take a close look at how to maintain the health of our nerves.

Because the alternative doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

Poor nerve health can result in pain and loss of muscle control and naturally what we eat

can be a factor in our nervous system health.

First up, is athrochlorotic plaque clogging the arteries feeding our spine leading to low

back pain, disc degeneration, and sciatic nerve irritation?

Here's the study.

Low back pain became one of the biggest problems for public health systems in the Western

world during the second half of the 20th century.

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