I had a bulging lumbar disc - pure agony for 18 months. I had become used to carrying a lumbar pillow around with me everywhere I went. I couldn't lean forward for more than about 30 seconds without it being unbearable.

Then someone suggested I try dead hangs, stretching my hamstrings, and really cranking the McKenzie stretch. I'm not sure which one made the difference (all 3?), but pain was gone in 2 weeks.

Maybe it will help, maybe it won't. But since someone took a flyer telling me, I always share this with others in the small chance it helps them.

It's a miracle drug for reducing immune overreach, like better than anything we know of. This is also completely outside of the weight loss effects. My lower back is improved by it.

It'll come to be known that these drugs are far better for people in a broad way than even thought today. They seem to have at least 4 effects that individually should be considered a "miracle."

I know you're getting a lot of "this worked for me" responses and I wanted to throw one more in. I used to have lower back problems all the time, but after following a strength training program for the olympic lifts with a personal trainer, generally the only time I have lower back pain now is if I've gone too hard to deadlifts or rows, not from general day to day things.

SW033291 or MF-300 might be interesting to look out for with spinal function. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000333.h...

I have a bad disc, and while its still bad, a couple weeks of freestyle swimming workouts makes it not hurt for a year or two and lets me mountain bike comfortably again. Something to try if the usual stuff doesn't work, as it tends not to!

This was the disc between lumbar and sacrum. 1,000 ways to have a bad disc so results will vary a lot!