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The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss

How could placing a little sugar-water at the junction of a ligament with a bone be harmful to a  could placing a little sugar-water at the junction of a ligament with a bone be harmful to a patient? In 2005, doctors at the Mayo Clinic began testing prolotherapy and identi ed the most responsive injury sites as the knees, elbows, ankles, and the sacroiliac joint in the low back. They concluded in their newsletter that "unlike corticosteroid injections--which may provide temporary relief--prolotherapy involves improving the injected tissue by stimulating tissue growth." The prolo cocktail I used at the clinic mentioned at the opening of this chapter had a few additional ingredients: Dextrose Marcaine (anesthetic) B-12 Proline Lysine Glucosamine sulfate My rst session entailed 12 prolo injections. It wasn't all fun and games. For 45 minutes after the first session, I had vertigo and a cold, numb right hand.