This is me getting an amazing treatment for back pain. Those needles are sticking out of my neck, where they gave me X-ray-guided injections of platelet-rich plasma taken from my own blood, mixed with some other healing peptides. I was awake, but I only remember part of it, so I asked my doctor to film some of it for you guys. He puts up with me. It's now one month later, and I've got some results to share. But let's rewind a bit. I've told you guys how I recently discovered that I have the bone density of a healthy 120-year-old, a suspiciously inauspicious number. Well, this led to two compression fractures in my spine and some disc issues. in my neck, all likely part of the upper back pain that I've suffered for the last five years or so. Centered right here, and no amount of viral try-this-stretch videos could help it. Five weeks ago, I came home from playing volleyball and the pain started to flare up. It got steadily worse over several hours until it got to the point where I couldn't even breathe without sending shooting pains up my spine. I had already been doing a lot of research into different ways of improving bone density, video coming soon, and for healing my spine injuries. And one of the more promising methods was platelet-rich plasma. It's where they take your blood, and more blood, and run it through a center where it spins at over 40,000 spins per minute to separate out the platelets from the red blood cells and the main plasma. Platelets are these tiny disc-shaped cells in your blood that play a key role in clotting and healing. When you get a cut or injury, platelets rush to that site and form a blood clot, which helps stop the bleeding. But they also release growth factors which promote tissue repair and healing in that area. But in old, chronic injuries, that healing process has sort of petered out before it really got a chance to finish. So by re-injecting platelet-rich plasma into that injury area, it can sort of restart that healing process again and hopefully let it finish. Or at least give it a boost. Multiple meta-analyses have shown this to be better than a placebo injection for treating chronic back pain. We don't even fully understand how, but some early data shows that it might actually help repair damaged discs. Precision is super important when it comes to big needles and your spine, so I went back to the same doctor at Hudson Health in New York who's been helping my girlfriend with injections to treat her chronic pain and nervous system issues. And he agreed to help out along with their sports medicine specialist. You want doctors who specialize in this stuff. After spinning down the PRP, they put me on the table and gave me some anesthesia. to partially knock me out. So I handed off the camera and asked the doctor to document a bit. They got the needles in me guided by x-ray, which I can remember, and then... This is our consecrated PRB. This is our peptide mix. This is our player rich, poor plasma. ...and our filter, PRP concentrate, PRP concentrate, with the addition of peptides. ...on-C-157, TB 500, and GHCCU. joints in the circle spine, these needles are going to get directed under x-ray guidance to the joints. You can see the contrast actually coming out of these nerve loops. This is C6, this is C7 nerve loops. So that's all been blasted with the platelets and PRP. It took just 20 minutes and I was a bit sore after, but the pain was still there, because this wasn't a steroid or a pain killer, and real healing takes time. The acute pain lasted another few days and then slowly started to go down. By three weeks, I was back to my normal chronic pain levels. Not great, but manageable. But now it's been one month, and my pain is better than it's been years. Not fully gone yet, but the normal PRP follow-up time is six to 12 weeks. And I may go back for seconds, plus some added stuff, which I'll share with you soon. Questions?
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Replying to @Hyrule Castle PRP has also been shown to help with tendon and ligament healing, osteoarthritis, skin rejuvenation, and even hair loss! I just wish it were way cheaper and more accessible- and covered by insurance! 😢 A big thanks to @Jonathann Kuo MD at @Hudson Health for his amazing needle (and camera) work! #health #science #longevity #backpain
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