Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "These Foods u0026 Habits BOOST BRAIN HEALTH u0026 End Inflammation! | Andrew Weil u0026 Lewis Howes" video.

  1. Dr Weil has a lot of genuinely useful information to share but I was irritated at the idea that back pain is primarily psychological. We don't want to teach people that physical problems are psychological. We don't want to teach people that "yes, your x-ray is pretty bad but other people have worse x-rays and they're fine, so it's all in your head." That is tremendously invalidating. I just had back surgery, a minimally invasive laminectomy. Nerves that had been completely compressed now have room. The pain disappeared because the nerves are no longer compressed. There was nothing psychological in it. There's a danger with alternative medicine of going too far. When a doctor finds a tool, a useful tool that others are perhaps not aware of or discount, we all benefit from learning about that tool. The problem is thinking that every problem can be solved with that one new special tool. If you have a hammer everything becomes a nail. The ability to look into psychological issues is important. But at the same time it is dangerously wrong to say that most back pain is psychological. It's dangerously wrong to say that anything falls into the same category. Let's avoid making the kinds of generalizations that can cost people their lives and health. It also damages the credibility of people on the alternative side of the spectrum.
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