My pleasure. I speak as someone who suffered severe cervical disc degeneration, and spent a small fortune to “save my own life” from debilitating fusion by seeking out the absolute best specialists in the world, which ultimately led me to NYU Langone undergoing what was then surgery that wasn’t yet approved by the FDA, as a trial subject. I walked out that afternoon and a decade later it’s like I never had a disc problem.
TLDR I became an expert in seeking out the leading edge science, not whacko “alternative” medicine, just the stuff that takes about 15 years to trickle down from the elite doctors and research hospitals to become common practice accessible to the majority.
Discs aren’t “dead” gel fill pads. They’re alive, and maintain themselves, with cells that require glucose to function, and the only source are tiny blood vessels that come close enough to “seep” glucose out of their walls that the discs pull into themselves. The TLDR is by focusing on cardiovascular health(stop plaque progression, lower inflammation esp visceral fat, control BP) every system that relies on healthy blood flow (which is ALL of them) improves. The focus on cardiovascular health only looks at the arteries feeding the heart and brain, but doctors have long noticed the same scans that they use to examine spine degeneration often show a degree of plaque in nearby arteries (they can see calcified plaque) that more often than not mirrors the severity of the condition of discs. Because this process takes many years, or decades, it’s been very difficult to study directly, but there’s enough “smoke” few doubt the connection.
Reta will not clear visceral fat much faster, and if Tirz works for him stick with it. What causes the body to gradually store more fat in the viscera (vs subcutaneous) is the drop in growth hormone. Men experience this drop in GH much more quickly than women, so as early as 25 you see guy’s developing the famed “dad gut”, even if they’re not obese. Tesamorelin raises growth hormone levels in a very natural, safe way, and just like men in their early 20s, excess energy storage will shift into subcutaneous depots where it’s relatively harmless, and out of the abdominal cavity and organs (don’t confuse “soft” fat on the stomach, which is subcutaneous, with visceral fat, which is deep internal, hard fat).
Essentially, as we develop excess visceral fat stores, our bodies can’t supply enough blood to keep it all oxygenated. So the visceral fat tissue goes into hypoxia, ie, starved of oxygen, and starts sending out potent hormonal signals that’s it’s injured and dying. The body thinks it’s under attack by some pathogen, and “lights the house on fire” with systemic inflammation trying to fight off a non existent infection, but ends up just damaging tons of healthy tissue instead, including the blood vessels feeding the discs, making them unable to function properly.
