This Common Vitamin Could Stop Lower Back Pain in Its Tracks

Jolting awake, Barbara Farfan felt a stabbing ache shoot from her hip down her left leg. What is occurring to me? she apprehensive and rapidly tried a collection of stretches, hoping for aid. However to her dismay, the agony obtained worse.

A global pet-sitter, the Seattle native was staying in a small metropolis in Mexico. It wasn’t the simplest place to seek out assets. Because the capturing ache progressed, Barbara discovered it more and more troublesome to get away from bed. She’d crawl to the toilet and the kitchen for water. However making ready meals required standing — which was excruciating.

After every week of trying to find options, she recognized a neighborhood chiropractor, and set an appointment. The chiropractor promptly identified her with sciatica, a radiating ache alongside the trail of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the decrease again by way of the hips and buttocks and down every leg.

The chiropractor massaged alongside the nerve, which enabled Barbara to face lengthy sufficient to prepare dinner, however do little of anything. She additionally tried acupuncture, with minimal aid.

Realizing she wanted entry to raised assets, Barbara took a flight to Mexico Metropolis. She was in a lot ache by the point she landed, an airline worker needed to escort her in a wheelchair. I can’t reside like this, she thought.

How does vitamin C assist sciatica?

After settling in, Barbara started researching pure sciatica remedies, and found that the highly effective anti-inflammatory properties in vitamin C might be the important thing to relieving her ache. Much more, Barbara discovered that liposomal vitamin C, the place the vitamin is wrapped in little fats bubbles to enhance absorption and permit for increased doses with out inflicting digestive upset, was particularly efficient.

Hopeful, Barbara discovered premade liquid liposomal vitamin C dietary supplements on-line, although not sufficient to take constantly. Nevertheless, she additionally discovered a easy recipe for a potent vitamin C emulsion that mixes sunflower lecithin (fats) with ascorbic acid (vitamin C) utilizing an ultrasonic jewellery cleaner.

After gathering the elements and making the drink, Barbara started with a “superdose” by ingesting one cup of the liquid, sipped over an hour, each morning. To her amazement, the ache and swelling in her leg dissipated instantly.

Over the following few weeks, as her signs improved, Barbara started tapering her dosage till, after two months, along with her ache gone, she went down to 2 tablespoons each morning, which she continues to take immediately. “I’d learn that sciatica by no means goes away, and right here I’m completely freed from ache!” says the 61-year-old, who began SciaticaPainStop.com to share pure remedies. “I really feel so superb!”

Why does it work?

Each cell within the physique makes use of vitamin C to defend towards disease-causing irritation, says vitamin C researcher Thomas Levy, MD. And because the major reason for ache is irritation, vitamin C dietary supplements can work wonders. The caveat? Normal C is poorly absorbed by the physique, he says. However liposomal C, a kind the place the vitamin is encased in fats, is absorbed practically one hundred pc (Purchase on Amazon, $18.98). “The outer coating of a liposome is nearly an identical to the cell wall, so it could actually merge into that cell membrane and develop into a part of it.” Plus, it doesn’t convey the unwanted side effects (like diarrhea) of normal vitamin C.

Barbara’s expertise is promising, however as at all times, seek the advice of your doctor earlier than adopting new therapy therapies and/or making adjustments to your present ache administration plan.

This text initially appeared in our print journal, Girl’s World.