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What follows is the evidence that exists, strongest kind first, the arithmetic for a dose, the legal position on 4 August 2026, and a count of what twenty-four people with a spine problem said happened to them.\n\nThe site that publishes this page has a commercial relationship with a seller of this compound. Treat that as a reason to open every source link below rather than a reason to trust the summary.\n\n## Seven in ten of these clear on their own, and that is the number anything has to beat\n\nBefore any compound: a meta-analysis pooled 31 studies covering 2,233 people whose herniated discs were managed without surgery. The displaced disc material was reabsorbed in 70.39% of them. The rate ran 87.77% where a fragment had fully broken free, 66.91% for an extrusion, 37.53% for a protrusion, 13.33% for a bulge. Most of the shrinking happened inside the first six months.\n\n[[embed:source:s26]]\n\nAnd a randomised trial in 283 people with severe leg pain lasting 6 to 12 weeks compared early surgery against continued conservative care. Surgery took the leg pain away faster. At one year, the probability of feeling recovered was 95% in both arms.\n\n[[embed:source:s27]]\n\nHold those two numbers against everything below. If you start a compound today and feel better in three months, the honest reading is that you are inside the seven-in-ten who were going to improve anyway. Nothing on this page separates you from that group, because no trial has ever been run that could.\n\n[[embed:herniated-disc]]\n\n## Your problem is at least three problems, and a compound can only reach two of them\n\nThe first is space. Disc material is sitting where a nerve root needs to be. That is what the scan measures, and the only two things that remove it are your own body digesting the fragment over months and a surgeon cutting it out. No compound in any species has been shown to shrink a herniation.\n\nThe second is chemistry. The material that leaked out is not inert. Mice given disc material placed against a nerve root developed lasting leg pain and damage to the nerve cells, with no squeezing involved at all — the inflammatory signal did it.\n\n[[embed:source:s7]]\n\nThe inflammatory enzyme measured in human herniated disc material runs 20 to 100,000 times more active than the same enzyme measured from any other source in the literature.\n\n[[embed:source:s8]]\n\nThe third is the nerve itself. A root that has been squeezed and chemically burned for weeks has damaged fibres, and that is what produces the numbness, the pins and needles and the weak foot. Nerve fibres regrow at roughly a millimetre a day, which is why that part of the recovery lags the pain by months.\n\nThe claim on the table is that this compound reaches the second and third problems and not the first. Read the next two sections deciding whether the animal work supports even that much.\n\n## Nobody has put this compound near a spinal disc, in any species\n\nA systematic review in orthopaedic sports medicine screened 544 articles from 1993 to 2024 and kept 36 studies. Thirty-five were animal or dish work. One was clinical. The tissues were muscle, tendon, ligament and bone.\n\n[[embed:source:s11]]\n\nThere is no disc study. Not a rat disc, not a rabbit disc, not a disc in a dish. The tissue that is actually causing your pain has never been exposed to this compound in a published experiment. 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