Dr. Danny Shapiro
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first heard Mar 2025
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And did you hear how there's new versions of peptides that can regrow parts of your nervous system back? People with dementia and Alzheimer's, people who have had strokes or spinal cord injuries, it can help the nerves to regrow. Like I just heard this recently that they're like, they're trying to perfect it in somehow, some way.
but my god that's incredible um i mean vpc in itself is mind-blowing and crazy i heard uh funnily enough um a doctor was she fractured her wrist as well i don't remember where it was is probably probably also a fuchsia injury um and she went to her hand surgeon uh friend and the hand search was like hey that this is really bad it's displaced like You know, we should operate on that.
And then she goes back and she does start doing BPC injections. And then I think it was like a month later, it goes back to the hand surgeon friend and they retake the x-ray. And he goes, what the hell did you do? How is this? Like, there's nothing there. Like it was as if it was never broken.
Yeah.
Oh, my God. We can talk about this all day. I would say, like, if I had to break down percentages in my office of, like, who I see, I'd say, like, 45-ish percent or so of the patients that come through my clinic are disc herniation or stenosis patients. The next is like knee arthritis or knee meniscus tears. And then the other ones is like hip arthritis and then like shoulders.
But oh my gosh, there's so much old outdated medicine because doctors are still telling them, hey, you'll have this problem for the rest of your life. Yeah, it's crazy. then that doctor even needs to retire or update the research because that's not true. Discrimination, I mentioned earlier, I had a discrimination eight years ago. That took me, I got mine, I know exactly the moment it happened.
I was doing bent over rows with 135 pounds and I was my last set, my last few reps and then all of a sudden I hear a pop. I was in Canada at the time and We're on a family vacation, and at that moment, there's nothing that happened. I had the pop. I was like, okay, that was weird. I dropped away instantly and stopped.
The next day, early in the morning, we were all driving back from Canada back to New York. We got into the garage of the home, and I went to go get out of the car, and I dropped to the floor.
That's awful. It was horrible. But long story short, fast forward to today, I'm doing 285 in the bent-over rows. More than double the weight of what caused my initial disc herniation. I'm dancing, I'm moving, I'm grooving. My overhead press for military press with the barbell is 225. Wow. Yeah.
No, it does. It's exactly right. And actually, what happens is, it's funny, I was actually just prepping a piece of very lengthy content about this because, like, as you know, right, when we have a disc herniation, it interrupts nerve flow, right? So, you know, if we're talking about, say, L4, L5, or L5, S1, these are, like, the most common.
To have a lumbar, you know, disc herniation, also, like, not uncommon, but the most common ones are usually around L4, L5, L5, S1. For example, that's the two that my brother had, and his was really bad.
But the point is that every disc herniation interrupts the nerve flow as it goes down through your hip, as it goes down through your thigh, as it goes down through your calf and foot, and all the muscles that receive the input from that nerve are impacted. And if you don't do anything about them, they start to atrophy and get weaker and become more unstable.
And so many times when people have continuous pain five years post initial disc herniation, or at least the realization of a disc herniation, right? Because again, you won't know until you check and who knows how long that's been brewing there. So let's just say five years, like the example you gave, people don't realize that the pain that they're probably feeling is from two things.
One, from the fact that they haven't moved, twisted, or bent their spine in five years because the fear of God was put into them to avoid it at all costs. And I love the fact that doctors say don't lift anything more than 10 pounds. And I'm like, oh, my God. I got a crazy story for you after this.
And then the second thing is like the muscles that were impacted by that nerve that was, again, had the interruption of a nerve flow signal, you never rebuilt those back. So that's what's causing the problem, between the lack of mobility and strength through the actual spine and all the muscles that support it, as well as all the muscles that were impacted by it.
And that's why usually most people have multi-location pain. So it's not just in your back, but it's also in your hip and your knee, possibly on the other side too, because of compensations. It's nuts. And this is what I go through with all the patients who come to me with chronic pain, from an initial disc herniation finding. That's what it is every single time. It is never the disc herniation.
Oh, so I had a patient. He was in his mid-20s when we started working together. And this guy was a dancer, just like I was. He danced every day, competed, and he had multiple disc herniations through his cervical spine, thoracic spine, and lumbar spine. He had pain all through his neck, through his shoulders, through his arms, through his back. Pain was pretty much everywhere.
He was in a lot of trouble. And he stopped competing, and he still taught and stuff because that was part of his job. That was his livelihood. But his doctors also told him, hey, you'll never be able to compete again. Again, mid-20s.
Yeah, really terrible. Yeah. Don't lift anything 10, 15 pounds over your head. Don't do it. You're going to maim yourself even worse. And just accept that this is going to be your life. You know, you can live on six apples a day. And this is how you should go forward. And I got to say, fast forward to today. He is actively competing all the time. He is teaching all the time.
His pain is much better modulated and more under control. He is definitely lifting more than 10, 15 pounds over his head, considering he sometimes holds bodies.
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