Column Back Pain and Diet: Reducing Pain through a Balanced Nutritional Program

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03.06.2025

The relationship between back pain and diet

But what exactly does pain and diet have to do with each other?

When people hear the term “back pain”, they often imagine that there is a problem with the muscles, discs, nerves, bones, or other tissues. This image is not wrong, but why exactly do these tissues experience problems in the first place?

The answer is that the tissues are having difficulty receiving the nutrients.

Nutrients obtained from the meals we eat are very important for tissues such as the intervertebral discs and muscles.

Good nutrition vs. not so good nutrition

What actually happens once the food we eat reaches the intestines?

Foods containing useful ingredients help with the intestinal lining. This in turn improves the quality of the blood and its ability to repair tissues.

On the other hand, foods with poor nutritional qualities tend to deteriorate the intestinal environment. It is recommended to stay away from such ingredients.

It is also important to keep in mind that this is not simply a question of consuming the recommended foods in abundance.

If you overeat, the unabsorbed food will break down and cause your blood to be less fluid. This will put a strain on the internal organs, affecting blood flow and delaying the repair of the intervertebral discs and other tissues.

In addition, when the internal organs are under strain, hormones and other bodily functions necessary for the body to function properly can diminish, and this can eventually lead to diabetes and other problems. When this happens, it creates a vicious cycle in which the strain keeps increasing further.

Key Points to improve dietary habits

Reevaluating one’s diet will help cleanse the blood and ensure that nutrients are once again properly distributed to the intervertebral discs, nerves, and other tissues. Since proper nutrients are essential for tissue repair, improving one’s diet can help reduce pain and prevent back pain.

Stop eating when your stomach is 80% full

To avoid overeating, it is recommended to keep food intake under 80% of a full stomach.

Avoid eating too fast

Eating too fast puts a strain on the internal organs, so make sure to chew your food well.

Because chewing well one’s food also help stimulate the satiety center, keeping track of the number of times you chew one mouthful will also help you eat less quickly. A good rule of thumb is to chew each bite at least 20 times.

However, if you become overly conscious of doing this, your meals may lose their appeal, so remember to enjoy your meals as well!

Drink water at room temperature

It is recommended to drink water at room temperature. Drinking cold water will cool your intestines and reduce digestion and absorption, making it difficult to absorb nutrients.

Even when eating out, drinking water without ice is preferable.

Drink slowly

Drink water slowly, sip by sip, in several small increments. If you drink all at once, you will drink water in excess, which may cause swelling.

Snack after meals

If you feel like having a snack, do it after meals. Eating a snack right before a meal can put a strain on the digestive system.

Although it is ideal to refrain from eating snacks as much as possible, if you are in the habit of eating some, it is best to limit doing so to once every two days.

Treatment at our clinic

When you have back pain, fundamental treatment may also become necessary at one point.

Our clinic offers the Cellgel method, a treatment that repairs damaged intervertebral discs.

With our Cellgel procedure, a drug is injected that fills in the cracks in the disc, which then forms a gel that repairs the cracks, thus providing a fundamental treatment. It is characterized by the fact that the volume of the disc is not reduced and the drug remains in the disc as a gel-like implant after treatment, thus preserving the disc.