hey guys hope you're well just got in off a flight and I decide to make a
video right away because I sat next this poor guy who had this condition called restless leg syndrome now if you suffer
with restless leg syndrome or if you know somebody has this condition or leg
pain you absolutely need to see this video because I was not only able to
help this poor guy in the short term they make him comfortable I was able to
give him some long-term advice and I'm gonna share the same advice and I'm
gonna give it to you and I've been given it successfully to my patients for the
last three decades okay so far with the video so what is restless leg syndrome
it's also known as Willis ex-con disease and is characterized by unpleasant or
uncomfortable feelings in the leg with the urge to move now if we look at men
and women it does the scale still to live it more towards women but the one
thing is for sure eighty percent of people who have restless leg syndrome
they get this kind of twitching or jerking motion which occurs every 15 to
40 seconds so needless is saying sleeping can get interrupted by this
generally is characterized also that a good thing there's it's generally
relieved in the morning but as the day goes on things tend to get worse okay so
by the time you get home from work and sit down turn a TV that's when things
start kicking in but it also can happen in a sedentary position sitting for long
periods at work go into new movies or like the poor guy sitting next to me
today in the airplane seat it can with a long flight that's when it can also kick
in so what are the signs and symptoms of restless leg syndrome like I said before
the one thing is they have this incredible urge to keep moving the
sensations are kind of nebulous and very difficult to describe but they can be
described as like aching or or throbbing pulling itching creeping crawling and
the main thing is you see and they always have to keep moving though the
guy sitting next you to tapping their legs the person who keeps flipping in
bed but they're the person has to always keep pacing the floor and the classic
feature with restless leg syndrome is that it's always worse at night and they
always have a short distinct symptom free period in the morning so what
causes restless leg syndrome in most cases the etiology is known own
translation they don't know what the hell cause
I have some theories I don't know if I'm going to go through them on this video or not but some say there might be a
genetic we always try to blame the genes some scientists say might be an iron
deficiency some people think it's the basal ganglia the part of the brain
controlled for movement which makes a chemical called dopamine which is seen
in Parkinson's it's seen in patients who take drugs for example people who take
like antihistamines or antipsychotic drugs or antidepressant drugs it's also
seen in the last trimester of pregnancy but generally that goes away after the baby or child is delivered so how is
restless legs syndrome diagnosed well the bad news is there is no specific
test for the diagnosis of restless leg syndrome it comes from a subjective
finding period but there are five criteria if your doctor or practitioner
must have from you to give you this diagnosis and I'm going to go through
those five right now drum roll please no that's terrible
this is not funny this is a terrible terrible situation here for people who
have this number one is a strong and often overwhelming need or urge to move
the legs that is often associated with abnormal unpleasant or uncomfortable
sensations number two the urge to move the leg starts or gets worse during rest
or inactivity number three the urge to move the legs is at least temporarily or partially or totally relieved by movies
number four the urge to move the leg starts or is aggravated in the evening
or at nighttime and number five the above four are not due to any other
medical or behavioral condition okay so how do we treat this we're going to start with the classic or the
conventional way and conventionally restless leg syndrome is treated with
drugs and a number of medications used to treat this disorder include central
nervous system depresses oh boys and anticonvulsant the the big thing is the
big gang Buster right now is towards drugs that did increase the
dopamine transmission to the central nervous system as like I said earlier
we're seen in like Parkinson's treatment a new thing that's trending right now is
anti-seizure drugs which are now becoming more the frontline okay there
you have it but but here's the thing what if you don't want to go down that
road what if you want to go non-drug well
good news is now we're getting into my arena this is the stuff that I want to talk about here we go so let's look at
the eye and diets important because you're documenting to promote enhance or
reduce the inflammatory response in your body and so you want to be careful not
to trigger these responses and there are certain foods that groups that actually
do this and you want to try to avoid these things the big one with the sugar and sugar is especially poster sugar is
it's just absolutely terrible if you have any inflammation problem like
restless leg syndrome another thing would be synthetically produced trans
fats processed nice forces carbohydrates processed vegetable oils especially high
in oxidized omega-6 fats now paradoxically Marine base omega-3 fats
are actually good and they actually reduce the inflammatory response and
there's been every study big study last year published that shows that ketogenic
diets which are high in healthy fats and low in net carbs are particularly
powerful for suppressing inflammation in other words when you suppress
inflammation you reduce your pain so we're going to
move on to supplements and supplements a lot of people want to know what can they
take if you want to go down this road as I talked about earlier according to the
science or some suggestions that there might be an iron deficiency so if you're
want to take iron supplementation if you're male you want to take 8
milligrams day women 18 milligrams a day but this is the recommended minimum
allowance magnesium magnesium your body according to the scientists doesn't
produce itself so you have to take this either through foods or through
supplementation but my favorite would be magnesium spray so you can actually
topically spray magnesium right on the sore areas and just rub it into the
muscles in a circular motion and then lastly there's folate the following
deficiency and there's a lot of research is kind of trending right now is folate
which is also b9 b9 I've known people who've taken be nine
and they said it take it completely got rid of that there
restless leg syndrome sitting when you have a condition like restless leg
syndrome you have to sit right I don't care you have to sit right and I've
never seen anybody who has this condition know how to sit right so the
key thing here is and I'm not gonna get into a big dissertation on how this it
I've done this before many many times you can click on the link down below
what I did for this capella to sit next to me today was I put them on a thing
called a foundation and this is a device that I made which engages the core
muscles and what it basically it gets the hips above the knees so when you're
sending the always want to make sure your hips are above your knees to engage
the core muscles and take the load off of your spinal nerves okay you may or
may not have heard all the stuff that I've just talked about but let's go with
the stuff I bet you've never heard of and let's we're gonna go a little bit
more esoteric and then we're gonna go really esoteric here but how about a gin
and tonic no seriously well maybe without the gin tonic water has a
substance called Quin 9 and Quin 9 now has been linked to relieve in restless
leg syndrome it's crazy so you know having midday tonic water give it a try
you have nothing to lose that I have known a lot of people who've done this
and they absolutely loved by this and they stand by this so quinna here's a
treatment that I absolutely love in fact there was a study that just recently
they found in a randomized controlled trial that 1/3 of the patients suffering
were that restless leg syndrome their symptoms completely went away and so
what they did was they applied a mechanical compression device to the
legs and what it does there the whole the whole mechanism was to pump or
promote a negative vacuum to promote circulation of the blood and the
lymphatics now if we dig a little deeper here this treatment has been used by the
ancient and ancient saying was found that compression so compression is
thought to be a way to reintroduce the biological vacuum so if you look at the
body every single cell in your body isn't a slight vacuum you're a negative
pressure your bodies that have in the back every single cell that's with fluid in a
cell they call the interstitial fluid isn't a slight negative pressure and so
by in by Inc by causing compression introducing compression your squeeze in
the blood your squeeze lymphatics and you're creating this biological vacuum
now that you can does all sorts of ways you can do this one way would be really
low-tech would be just using wraps as shown here below or you can go really
high-tech and there's all kinds of different types of things like a lot of
if you look at a lot of pro athletes now are getting on board with this and
they're using these things called compression boots so you want to emulate
the natural flow and lymphatic system so you want to start at your toes and move
towards your hips and it's usually done in a peristaltic contraction kind of way
okay start with a few minutes of compression and a few minutes without
and over the course of next ten days work up the fifteen minutes on and
fifteen minutes off for let's say an hour okay and the benefits here are the
benefits it improves blood flow it supplies oxygen to the muscles it
decreases tiredness improves mobility creates more energy and I love the
results of this therapy and I'm sure you will too and the last one here we're going to get really way way way out
there this isn't all actually an old Irish remedy from Mayo it comes from the
West of Ireland and it was it's been around for a long time it's kind of out
there but give it a go okay you you might even have to cure
yourself in your house and what they call the cure is a bar a soap now what
they do what they suggest is you put a bar of soap and you tuck it between your
sheets and your bed and you sleep with a bar soap in the bed I am not kidding you
the amount of people that I've told this to and they came back and said thank you
that's that's so crazy I know the how it works who cares it worse works for a lot
of people and this has been they've been doing this forever
I had one person come back to me he said you know that bar soap used to work doesn't work anymore and I said well why
won't you just try buying a new bar or soap and so they went out and they
bought I think like dove or any doesn't matter what kind of bar any kind
of bar tucked in the sheet yep that did the trick
that's bar soap hey I hope you enjoy that thank you for taking this little
detour at my office with me I had to get this off my chest I hope you enjoy your
evening and hey listen I hope you have a happy Christmas or as the Americans say
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