#2356 - Mike Vecchione

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

Mike Vecchione (0:06)

Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

SPEAKER_3 (0:12)

Feeling better now?

Joe Rogan (0:13)

It's awesome.

SPEAKER_3 (0:14)

Does it feel better?

Joe Rogan (0:14)

It does feel better, yes.

SPEAKER_3 (0:15)

A little bit? It's just a consistent thing, you have to do it every day. We're talking about decompressing the back, ladies and gentlemen.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Lower back pain.

SPEAKER_3 (0:22)

Another thing you can do without a machine is just bend your knees, just bend slightly, grab your arms like this and just go forward and relax your back and it'll pop your back that way too.

Joe Rogan (0:36)

I know how to pop an upper back. That's where you have the person's grab you and then hold you and then you can hear it crack. I don't know how good it is, but the lower back is, when I played football, I played contact football and we used to go to physicals. You had to get a physical and it was just a gigantic room and you'd go from doctor to doctor so everybody could do it at one time. I remember I laid down and the doctor grabbed my leg and he was trying to get range of motion and he got it like three quarters of the way up and it stopped. He said to me, you're going to have lower back pain when you're older. That's exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_3 (1:15)

You can avoid it.

Joe Rogan (1:15)

He predicted it.

SPEAKER_3 (1:17)

There's a lot of ways to avoid it. People just accept it. But what you're telling me right there, with not being able to get your leg up, that's a hamstring issue. So one thing, hamstrings and quads and glutes, all the tightness in those areas will absolutely affect your back. Because anytime you have restricted range of motion and you're really tight, everything else is tight too. Yeah, yeah. I say everything is like kind of pulled down. And you have to figure out a way to lengthen that shit out. And there's a lot of different stretches you could do, but you definitely should be doing them. Nobody likes to stretch. It sucks. Everybody hates it.

Joe Rogan (1:54)

It sucks.

SPEAKER_3 (1:55)

But if you don't do it, you're going to go to a doctor and they're going to want to cut you open.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 (1:58)

And don't do that because there's other ways around that. If you're listening to this and you got a bulging disk in your back, there's ways around it, folks. There's decompression, there's stem cells. There's a thing that I did a long time ago in California called, oh my god, what is it called? What is that shit called that Peyton Manning did? Regenekine. Regenekine, thank you. It escaped my mind. It's early. Regenekine is where they, it's like platelet-rich plasma, but it's a more sophisticated version of it. They first started, pioneered it in Germany. You used to have to go to Germany to get it, but now you get it in America. But...

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Stop over in Turkey for the hair and then hit Germany for... You don't have to do it.

SPEAKER_3 (2:34)

It's America now.

What is the name of the place? Life... Lifecycle Medicine in Santa Monica? What is the name of the place?

Joe Rogan (2:43)

Why am I not remembering?

SPEAKER_3 (2:45)

My brain has way too much extra information, and my hard drive is so full. Lifespan. Lifespan Medicine in Santa Monica is where I had it done. It was amazing. My neck was fucked up for like almost a year, and I was going to chiropractors who were all goofy. They're all... It's all nonsense. And then I finally went to this guy, Dr. Ben Ruhi there, and he said, you have a bulging disc in your neck. We got an MRI. He's like, this is what we could do. Spinal decompression, and we'll use Regenekine. It's a very potent anti-inflammatory. It'll relax all the muscles around that area, and slowly it'll go back, and it went back.

Joe Rogan (3:23)

But you had to go in for several treatments, though?

SPEAKER_3 (3:26)

The Regenekine, no. I think it was one treatment.

Mike Vecchione (3:28)

One treatment did it.

SPEAKER_3 (3:30)

I did go back again to get another treatment, but that's just because I do jujitsu. And jujitsu is just always getting your neck ranked on. I went back to get like mid-back. I think I did one more on my neck, too, but it was more... I might not have, but it was more like maintenance than anything. The big issue had been resolved. And then I started strengthening, because I never really did anything to strengthen my lower back, my neck, any of those things while I was training jujitsu in the beginning.