Peter Attia· MD
what is the pathologic response to the anterior bulging of the disc because when you have that posterior bulge I guess we we should have mentioned this earlier and I guess it's worth stating the spinal cord stops quite high up the spinal cord does not run down the entire Canal it stops around L2 so for most of the people experiencing lower uh back pain Visa a herniation the fortunately the herniated disc is not hitting your spinal cord it is hitting the nerves that emanate from it but again there's so much real estate in that area it's it's it's insane right because you don't just have the nerve Roots you have the dorsal Roots you have all all of these other tiny little nerves that are going to the facets and to the disc and to the vertebral bodies that's Sur running musculature and to your genitals and and and do everything that's important of course that that's that's that's absolutely correct and I learned that the very very hard way