The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
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.
On the positive side, decade-old pain in my right wrist (from impact in gymnastics) and my
left knee (wrestling) both disappeared approximately 21 days after the last session.
The dangers of the ingredients are minimal, particularly when a simple dextrose-based