Friday, May 17, 2013

Low Back Pain and Bacteria. What's the gut have to do about it?

Recently, as I have been studying about brain based chiropractic treatments I realized everything keeps coming back to nutrition. I've always believed that nutrition is the best way to stay and be healthy, but this revelation really clicked. Over the past couple of days, while studying Andy Barlow material, a brilliant neuro-based chiropractor, he stated that when the brain has conflicting tests look to metabolic treatments. What that means is the more messed up the brain is, the more you should look to the gut health.

Now a couple days later I stumbled upon a new study linking bacterial infections and chronic low back pain. After reading through the article and a couple of reviews of the article is dawned on me that this all comes back to gut health.

The study found that around 50% of chronic low back pain cases are the result of invading bacteria. The bacteria invades the disc and moves into the surrounding bone causing irritation and pain. More interestingly, when the patients in the study were given a course of antibiotics 80% of them improved drastically. Some of them were even called 'cured' in the article. By far the most interesting part of the article was the invading bacteria. It was the same bacteria present in common acne.

As any natural medicine practitioner will tell you and knows from clinical experience the most common reason people have regular acne is diet. Improper diet, foods you are intolerant or allergic too, GMOs, conventional foods, dairy, gluten, and corn all cause acne. Another thing a crappy diet causes is leaky gut. Dairy causes excessive mucus production clogging the pores inducing acne. Gluten has skin conditions associated like atopic dermatitis. GMOs and toxins all have the ability to cause acne. What I tell patients who ask about acne is this. 'Acne is toxins trying to get out of the body. They want out so fast they are breaking through the skin. Imagine what your intestines look like.'

A common 4 R gut healing program usually always clears up the common acne. Now what does this mean for low back pain cases. Well since the invading bacteria in chronic low back pain seems to be the same as with common acne, wouldn't it make sense that this is a gut issue? How does conventional medicine clean up a bad gut? Antibiotics. How does a natural medicine practitioner do it? With soothing nutrients. With nutrients that kill bad bacteria, yeast, and fungus, while at the same time increasing the good bacteria and nourishing the gut. By reestablishing proper digestion with HCl, enzymes and gallbladder support, healing the gut lining and providing the right probiotics, and most importantly improving the diet. 'Leans, greens, nuts and seeds' is a great easy way to look at food. Michael Pollan stated, "Eat food. Real food. Mostly plants."

So combine what we already know works for low back pain, chiropractic, and now add a gut healing program and we will be eliminating chronic low back pain for millions. All at the same time helping people get healthier!

In good health,

Dr. Kurt

Sources:
Eur Spine J. 2013 Apr; 22(4): 697-707. PMID: 23404353


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