Dr. Todd Sinner - The Back Pain Relief Diet: The Undiscovered Key to Reducing Inflammation and Eliminating Pain

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THE BACK PAIN RELIEF DIET

Copyright 2018 by Todd Sinett

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EAST END PRESS

Bridgehampton, NY

ISBN: 978-0-9975304-7-6

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-9975304-8-3

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018909166

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This book is dedicated to my beloved father, who had the determination to seek out a cure for his back pain and then the courage to share the undiscovered key with the world!

T hank you for picking up The Back Pain Relief Diet. I am thanking you because I know a back pain relief diet book sounds a bit crazy, and there surely will be some people who wont open it for that reason. No doctor has ever discussed this in a dedicated text. In fact, most doctors who spend their lives treating back pain dont even know the link between diet and back pain. There are no diagnoses called Inflamed Dietary Back Pain or something referred to as DDD (Degenerative Dietary Disease), nor are there any high-tech diagnostic tests to help those who arent looking beyond the back to identify diet as a source of inflammation and pain.

Suffice to say, I didnt invent this theory. However, we are in a worldwide back pain epidemic. Twenty percent of the population is currently suffering from back pain, and 85 percent will suffer from it at some point in their lives. Here are some other shocking truths about the back pain epidemic:

• In April 2014, back pain became the number one reason for job disability in the world.
• Back pain is second only to the common cold as the reason for visits to the doctor.
• Back pain is the third most common reason for hospitalization.
• It is the fifth most common reason for surgery.
• Thirty-three percent of all people over the age of 18 have sought treatment for back pain in the last five years.
• Our healthcare system spends upwards of $90 billion on the diagnosis and treatment of back pain.

All of these things show that our doctors are not succeeding in diagnosing and treating back pain, and thats because our treatments are not targeting all of the sources of back pain. Heres one more shocking truth about back pain: ones diet continues to grow as a leading cause of back pain. This is one major contributing factor that your doctor is missing in diagnosing the source of your back problem.

It is not just that we are a nation of unhealthy eaters. Healthy eaters suffer from nutritionally induced back pain, too. Thats why this book can help everyone identify their triggers. Yours may be sugar, or it may be kale! Yes, that super-food that can do no wrong can actually cause inflammation in the stomach and reflex into the back. The saying We are what we eat is a bit oversimplified. I would say, We are what we digest. When your digestive system is upset, it creates gut inflammation, which ultimately causes muscular inflammation, resulting in pain.

Simply put: Your diet could be the cause of your back pain. Conversely, your diet can also be the solution to your back pain.

I will delve into the medicine behind the theory in more detail later, but here is the basic premise: all the parts of the body are interconnected. Anything that upsets your stomach causes inflammation. Consuming a large quantity of inflammatory foods causes your muscles to contract without relaxing. If this goes on for a prolonged period of time, back spasms and other negative health issues will result. Because your back and spine are closest to your stomach, the back is often the location where muscular pain and spasms stemming from stomach irritation first emerge. However, because your back and spine impact and connect to every part of your body, your pain may not actually be in your back. Instead, it may be emerging from elsewhere: your neck, feet, hips, really anywhere! There is no limit to the positive changes in your health when you reduce your chemical inflammation and when your digestive system improves in function.

How did I arrive at this theory? Well, it was actually my fathers own health that led him to these conclusions decades ago and caused us both to refine our medical practices and develop the best way to analyze chemical and nutritional roots of back pain. Here is his story.

THE BACK PAIN PROBLEMS
OF DR. SHELDON SINETT

For fifteen years, my father had been working from eight in the morning until eight at night as a chiropractor, seeing patient after patient, until one day, he bent down to pick up a tennis ball and could not get up. I threw my back out, he said and took a few days off from work to rest in bed. However, the days turned into weeks, and the weeks turned into nine long months without any relief from his spasms and pain.

For those nine months, my father searched for answers to his back problem. My mother would drive him for doctor visits while my father lay down in the back of the car. He went for endless treatments and consultations within every known profession, including his own, but unfortunately, nothing helped. A surgeon recommended exploratory surgery (never a good term), offering to open him up to see if they could find anything. My father and family were desperate to find an answer to his suffering. Hoping to find another option, he went to see a doctor in Detroit with the fortuitous name of Dr. George Goodheart. Dr. Goodheart was unlike any other doctor that my father had seen. He focused solely on one question: why was my father having such terrible back spasms? He reasoned that other doctors were focusing on getting rid of the back spasms rather than finding out why they occurred in the first place. Dr. Goodheart told my father that back pain always comes from somewhere or something: the only thing that is random in the body is trauma, such as a car accident or falling off of a bike; otherwise, back pain builds little by little. Eventually, a simple movement, such as bending down, can become the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. The doctor told my father that while we may not always understand the cause, it is likely that something is being missed by the doctors, preventing them from diagnosing the problem. Dr. Goodheart surmised that, other than his back pain, my father seemed to be in good physical condition, that his back pain certainly didnt come about from some trauma or accident, and that bending down to pick up that tennis ball wasnt the true cause of his agony. Dr. Goodheart then looked to my fathers diet, which included quite a lot of caffeine and sugar. The good doctor felt that was the missing piece.