How to hydrate a bulging disc?

Question

I read somewhere that dried out discs bulge more easily, is that true? And if true I would like to know how to hydrate my bulging discs so they get healthy again.

Answer 1

How To Hydrate A Bulging Disc?...

How To Hydrate A Bulging Disc? Good question and not all that easy to answer in 2 sentences, so I apologise if it takes a little bit longer. I recently wrote a long article about the same subject, titled: Natural healing Bulging Discs - How"? Just click on the title and I'll take you to the article right away, but if you want just the quick conclusions, read on...

First of all why do dried out discs bulge more easily?..

Compare your discs to a spunge...

...a dried out spunge cracks and tears easily, you can easily test this, just put a spunge out in the sun and wait till it is totally dried out, then squeeze it and try to bend it and see how slowly it returns to its former shape and how easily it cracks and tears apart...

Now soak that spunge in water, and squeeze it again, now it is quite easy, and you will also find that it returns to its original shape more easily.

The same goes for your discs, if they are properly hydrated they can much better resist the pressures of your daily life...

So it is important to figure out how to rehydrate your discs...

How To Rehydrate Your Discs

Your discs hold and attract water through the osmotic principle in combination with a negative electrical charge. Fortunately you do not need to understand how this works in order to be able to experience the benefits.

Suffice it to say that this hydration process is partly driven by kinetic energy, in other words, it is driven by movement. And if it comes to that, it is YOU who has to do the moving.

In my book 'The Dutch Decompression Technique' I have written more about how your moving activates the metabolisme of your invertebral discs, and that basically boils down to 2 things:

- your discs suck in fluids from their direct environment via a process of diffusion. And diffusion happens when pressure on the discs is reduced. When you lie down, your spine does not put pressure on your discs, that is, IF your spinal muscles are relaxed.

- the second way your discs are hydrated is via a process called convection, and convection is the result of dynamic loading and releasing of the discs during movements.

Wolff's Law And Disc Hydration

The principles of The Dutch Decompression Routine are confrimed by an article written by some bright minds from the Woodruff School of Mecahnical Engineering, at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

In the article the writers talk about Wolff's law, which says that there is basic intelligence in our cells that reacts to the mechanical environment.

The study has led to the development of the interdisciplinary field of mechanobiology. Mechanobiology gives new insights that can be used to rehydrate your discs and get them back into better shape and health.

Thanks to mechanobiology we can now identify mechanisms by which mechanical signals are transduced into cellular activity. And the first resaerch results confirm there are definite and postive effects of physical factors on tissue growth and remodeling. Which means that we can now incroporate these findings in strategies for tissue regeneration also in the case of bulging disc hydration.

Form Follows Function - How To Hydrate Your Discs Breakthrough

Let me put all of the above in easy concepts:

- first of all wolff's law says that form follows function, let me give an example: train your biceps and you will get a bigger biceps. Or spend months in a non-gravity environment and discover that your bones are rapidly losing density (as NASA discovered upon return of astronauts to earth after longer periods in space).

- secondly: if you want your discs to develop into stronger and healthier and better hydrated discs, thanks to the wolff's law we now know what to do; i.e.: gently force your discs into better shape and health by putting your body through controlled motion - which is the function part of the equation, and if you use the right function, the right form or shape will ievitably follow.

Here is what you need to know to hydrate your discs:

1. Your discs are made of special tissue that needs enough circulation and movement to receive nutrients, water and oxygen, and to get rid of waste materials.
2. Your discs react to what you do, how you do it, what you eat drink and smoke as well.
3. You can help your discs regenerate and gain health by making some life style adjustments regarding your diet, your daily amount of moving and your posture - with a special exercise program you can speed this up.
4. Sometimes your discs need special attention to regenerate, this could be done in the form of integration of special natural decompression techniques into your life, a controlled series of moves that forces tissue formation to follow function and special dietary changes and supplements that are known to postively impact all necessary ingredients of natural disc healing and regeneration.

If you want access to a proven program that incorporates most of the above, then have a look at the Back Pain GoodBYE! program.