The studies that we have on nerve pain are only on diabetic neural pain … we have some miraculous results with WFPB diet and diabetic nerve pain … we have studies on other nerve disorders like Multiple Sclerosis but not pain like trigeminal pain.

Sciatic pain may have to do with disc degeneration. There is good data showing that atherosclerosis in the vertebral arteries that feed your vertebral discs play a role in disc degeneration. Our discs — our vertebral discs — cushioning between our inner spine is the largest avascular tissue in the body, meaning that there is no blood vessels inside them, so all the nutrients have to kinda trickle in — diffuse in from the outside; all the waste products have to diffuse out — you need a really rich blood flow to support your disc.

And if you have clogs in your vertebral arteries and do MRIs, you'll see clogs in all your arteries. You have clogs in your heart, you can get heart attack. You have clogs in your brain, you can get a stroke. Clogs in your vertebral arteries, you can degenerate your discs and get low back pain, sciatic pain, etc. etc.

Now, for the clogs in your heart, you can go plant-based and you can actually reverse: open up the arteries without drugs, withuout surgery and have a reversal. The question is: can we reverse low back pain — one of the leading cause of disability — by increasing blood flow, or are the discs too far gone and they're just not gonna come back? [Such studies have] never been done. Never been tried. Would love to see a trial on reversal of low back pain — randomizing people into plant-based diet — hasn't been done, certainly worth a try.