Dr. Howard Schubiner

Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Why would pain be increasing, especially back pain? But it's also other pains, headache pain, joint pain, stomach pains. It's not because our bodies have changed. We haven't evolved or changed our backs significantly in the last 20 years over how our backs have been in the last thousand years.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Why would pain be increasing, especially back pain? But it's also other pains, headache pain, joint pain, stomach pains. It's not because our bodies have changed. We haven't evolved or changed our backs significantly in the last 20 years over how our backs have been in the last thousand years.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Why would pain be increasing, especially back pain? But it's also other pains, headache pain, joint pain, stomach pains. It's not because our bodies have changed. We haven't evolved or changed our backs significantly in the last 20 years over how our backs have been in the last thousand years.

And when people see these statistics, they're always quick to find something in our environment that is causing this huge increase in pain, like kids. when I studied both pediatrics and internal medicine. And when we had a kid, teenager or a child who had back pain 30 years ago, 40 years ago almost when I was studying pediatrics now, it was an emergency.

And when people see these statistics, they're always quick to find something in our environment that is causing this huge increase in pain, like kids. when I studied both pediatrics and internal medicine. And when we had a kid, teenager or a child who had back pain 30 years ago, 40 years ago almost when I was studying pediatrics now, it was an emergency.

And when people see these statistics, they're always quick to find something in our environment that is causing this huge increase in pain, like kids. when I studied both pediatrics and internal medicine. And when we had a kid, teenager or a child who had back pain 30 years ago, 40 years ago almost when I was studying pediatrics now, it was an emergency.

There was back pain in a kid, kids never got back pain. And then in recent years, I saw a study that showed that one third of teenagers had reported back pain. And so everyone's quick to say, well, it must be their backpacks. They're carrying too many books. Or it must be that they're exercising too much. Or they're exercising too little. Or they're sitting too much. Or it's their computers.

There was back pain in a kid, kids never got back pain. And then in recent years, I saw a study that showed that one third of teenagers had reported back pain. And so everyone's quick to say, well, it must be their backpacks. They're carrying too many books. Or it must be that they're exercising too much. Or they're exercising too little. Or they're sitting too much. Or it's their computers.

There was back pain in a kid, kids never got back pain. And then in recent years, I saw a study that showed that one third of teenagers had reported back pain. And so everyone's quick to say, well, it must be their backpacks. They're carrying too many books. Or it must be that they're exercising too much. Or they're exercising too little. Or they're sitting too much. Or it's their computers.

Or it's their cell phones. And none of that is true. It has nothing to do with that. It turns out that pain follows cultural patterns.

Or it's their cell phones. And none of that is true. It has nothing to do with that. It turns out that pain follows cultural patterns.

Or it's their cell phones. And none of that is true. It has nothing to do with that. It turns out that pain follows cultural patterns.

standards if you look at the history of medicine you see that there are certain illnesses that tend to become more prevalent in populations over time and then they tend to wane and then they tend to come back and i'm not talking about cancer or heart disease or diabetes because those are the things that we know have changed over time in relation to a variety of things such as diet and environmental pesticides and whatever i'm talking about

standards if you look at the history of medicine you see that there are certain illnesses that tend to become more prevalent in populations over time and then they tend to wane and then they tend to come back and i'm not talking about cancer or heart disease or diabetes because those are the things that we know have changed over time in relation to a variety of things such as diet and environmental pesticides and whatever i'm talking about

standards if you look at the history of medicine you see that there are certain illnesses that tend to become more prevalent in populations over time and then they tend to wane and then they tend to come back and i'm not talking about cancer or heart disease or diabetes because those are the things that we know have changed over time in relation to a variety of things such as diet and environmental pesticides and whatever i'm talking about

So obviously I'm talking about pain, but what else is dramatically soaring young people in the last 20 years? Anxiety and depression. What else has risen is fatigue. And so if we can look broadly at our society and if we can look broadly at how our brain works and our body works, I think we'll find the answers to these questions.

So obviously I'm talking about pain, but what else is dramatically soaring young people in the last 20 years? Anxiety and depression. What else has risen is fatigue. And so if we can look broadly at our society and if we can look broadly at how our brain works and our body works, I think we'll find the answers to these questions.

So obviously I'm talking about pain, but what else is dramatically soaring young people in the last 20 years? Anxiety and depression. What else has risen is fatigue. And so if we can look broadly at our society and if we can look broadly at how our brain works and our body works, I think we'll find the answers to these questions.

But I can promise you it won't lie in some change in how we move our body or how our backs are. That I can tell you for sure.

But I can promise you it won't lie in some change in how we move our body or how our backs are. That I can tell you for sure.