Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So today we're going to talk about the sciatic nerve.

And there's two different reasons why you would have sciatic nerve pain.

It's pain down the back of the leg and it can go all the way down into the foot.

One is more of a structural problem where the low back curve is not there.

And I'll put a couple of videos down below of a technique to help put the curve back in,

especially with if you're sitting all day in front of your computer.

But there's another underlying cause of sciatic nerve pain that I want to talk about,

which is more internal and there's something happening to the nerve itself.

And it has to do with an imbalance of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids.

Omega-3 fatty acids are the anti-inflammatories and omega-6 are more inflammatory.

Now, we need both of these fats, but we need them in the right ratios.

An average American is really heavy on the six and very, very low on the three.

They have an imbalance and that creates a lot of inflammation and nerve pain.

And it affects the lipids, the myelin sheath around the nervous system.

But especially to the sciatic nerve, what's unique about the sciatic nerve,

it's one of the biggest nerves in the body.

It's about the width of my thumb.

So it's a huge nerve.

And if you have an imbalance, when you don't have enough of this and you have too much of this,

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