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Stuart McGill

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I haven't seen any evidence of PRP doing so. Mm-hmm. Now, I didn't condemn PRP throughout the body. I swear by it for stubborn muscle tears in one example. Ball and socket articular joints. There's no question. Not all the time, but it can make a measurable difference, but not injected into the disc. So I just need to give a little bit of a context to this now.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I haven't seen any evidence of PRP doing so. Mm-hmm. Now, I didn't condemn PRP throughout the body. I swear by it for stubborn muscle tears in one example. Ball and socket articular joints. There's no question. Not all the time, but it can make a measurable difference, but not injected into the disc. So I just need to give a little bit of a context to this now.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If we take someone's disc who's never been traumatized, so they're a young person... they can expose their spine to mobility, be it yoga or ballet or whatever, and they will probably increase the range of motion and mobility. They can strength train and toughen the collagen in the end plate and build some bone. And in other words, they can do both, Andrew.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If we take someone's disc who's never been traumatized, so they're a young person... they can expose their spine to mobility, be it yoga or ballet or whatever, and they will probably increase the range of motion and mobility. They can strength train and toughen the collagen in the end plate and build some bone. And in other words, they can do both, Andrew.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If we take someone's disc who's never been traumatized, so they're a young person... they can expose their spine to mobility, be it yoga or ballet or whatever, and they will probably increase the range of motion and mobility. They can strength train and toughen the collagen in the end plate and build some bone. And in other words, they can do both, Andrew.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They can increase the constituent strength of the various parts and they can create mobility. But once you have an injury to the disc and you lose a little bit of disc height, the world changes. It's not so easy to adapt those full range of athletic abilities anymore. So now you're forced to make a compromise. Most people, we can get them to do one or the other.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They can increase the constituent strength of the various parts and they can create mobility. But once you have an injury to the disc and you lose a little bit of disc height, the world changes. It's not so easy to adapt those full range of athletic abilities anymore. So now you're forced to make a compromise. Most people, we can get them to do one or the other.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They can increase the constituent strength of the various parts and they can create mobility. But once you have an injury to the disc and you lose a little bit of disc height, the world changes. It's not so easy to adapt those full range of athletic abilities anymore. So now you're forced to make a compromise. Most people, we can get them to do one or the other.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They can maintain mobility to play golf after a disc injury, or they want to pop up on a surfboard. That's their thing in life. They just want to be able to surf. I'll say, good. We can... manage, it's no longer adapting.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They can maintain mobility to play golf after a disc injury, or they want to pop up on a surfboard. That's their thing in life. They just want to be able to surf. I'll say, good. We can... manage, it's no longer adapting.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

They can maintain mobility to play golf after a disc injury, or they want to pop up on a surfboard. That's their thing in life. They just want to be able to surf. I'll say, good. We can... manage, it's no longer adapting.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

We can manage you to achieve that, but you're gonna have to back off the deadlifts and some of the strength exposures because they will just further compromise the disc height of a damaged disc. And we can do the opposite. If you want to strength train and bear a load, you're going to have to give up the mobility. So that game, that dance with the devil, that comes after the back injury.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

We can manage you to achieve that, but you're gonna have to back off the deadlifts and some of the strength exposures because they will just further compromise the disc height of a damaged disc. And we can do the opposite. If you want to strength train and bear a load, you're going to have to give up the mobility. So that game, that dance with the devil, that comes after the back injury.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

We can manage you to achieve that, but you're gonna have to back off the deadlifts and some of the strength exposures because they will just further compromise the disc height of a damaged disc. And we can do the opposite. If you want to strength train and bear a load, you're going to have to give up the mobility. So that game, that dance with the devil, that comes after the back injury.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So I think the question was a little bit about adaptation. If you haven't experienced disc damage yet, you have a lot more leeway to adapt your spine. After that, it becomes a game of management and encouraging an athletic ability. You become a little bit more unidimensional. And if you want a little bit of everything, okay, but you have to be very modest. You just have to...

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So I think the question was a little bit about adaptation. If you haven't experienced disc damage yet, you have a lot more leeway to adapt your spine. After that, it becomes a game of management and encouraging an athletic ability. You become a little bit more unidimensional. And if you want a little bit of everything, okay, but you have to be very modest. You just have to...

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So I think the question was a little bit about adaptation. If you haven't experienced disc damage yet, you have a lot more leeway to adapt your spine. After that, it becomes a game of management and encouraging an athletic ability. You become a little bit more unidimensional. And if you want a little bit of everything, okay, but you have to be very modest. You just have to...

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

try and achieve sufficient mobility, sufficient strength to do whatever, just to get through life. And it's a bit of a dance. So I don't know if that gives a bit of a context. That's perfect.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

try and achieve sufficient mobility, sufficient strength to do whatever, just to get through life. And it's a bit of a dance. So I don't know if that gives a bit of a context. That's perfect.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

try and achieve sufficient mobility, sufficient strength to do whatever, just to get through life. And it's a bit of a dance. So I don't know if that gives a bit of a context. That's perfect.