 Yo welcome to another never-ending conversation. Well, I guess it's the same conversation if it's never ending That's the whole point. Anyway, if you haven't listened before I talk about everything a lot of dunking But pretty much anything that interests me, which is everything so I also just wanted to hit on one point today Just because I don't have that much time and because I thought it was really important and pretty cool And by the title of this you already know what that is and that is knee pain Um, I don't think it's an actual secret, but I don't think many people know about it or really believe it And I didn't either and just to get right to it. It's uh, not eating wheat Um, kind of like gluten is the same thing but wheat in general just because Um, wheat is very processed the way we make it here So if you have if you get your natural products like pasta things like that, there's a lot of Uh, highly processed wheat that has no nutrients and it's just bad for your gut lining and things like that There's a lot more smarter people that explain why it's bad, but Just know that that and On top of gluten, um, including gluten Those two things they both can cause inflammation in all parts of your body Just inflammation in general and I had knee pain from dunking for Probably close to two years from when I started off and on it got better. It got worse, but um, I was dealing with it for a long time and uh The only thing that helped was Not eating wheat and I knew it was an inflammation problem because um, just the way it felt Meaning when I would jump on it that would make it worse after a dunk session or after playing basketball It would feel a little bit worse if I didn't use it and stretched it Like if I didn't use it Stretched it kept it warm and loose then it feel felt the best but after a lot of impact and things that you would kind of Common sense shows that it would cause inflammation like pounding on it jumping on it things like that That's when it would hurt the most and like sort of after I cooled down So if I would jump on it a lot then it would get like swelled up and stiff and get a little more painful and I had knee pain for a while because Um, when I first got it it was debilitating meaning I couldn't really jump on it at all I had to sit out for like a week or two I'm just trying to rehab it because it hurt really bad to jump on it Um, that was just one of my knees and then once it got better It was close to about like 80 healthy. I could jump on it. It would hurt but not really hinder my jumping I could still jump 100 um and I was doing that for a long time And I got it really close to 100 like sometimes I would barely have pain But if I would bend on it, I would feel it, but it went through Phases of how much I'd feel it so there'd be some days where I could bend my leg Um, so if I'm standing if you're watching the video podcast you get a little preview So if I'm standing on it and bent like this and pushing on it, I could feel it But if it was straight and only bent like this much The range of motion wasn't Um as painful So the more I had more range of motion with less pain on some days some days any slight bend I'd feel pain But um, I was stretching it really well. I learned a lot of stretches like Specifically the rectus femoris stretch, which I've said a million times. It's just one part of your quad that Doesn't get hit by the basic quad stretch. You have to push your hip forward I've posted that in other videos jump science has a great, uh I'll link his website in the description He's got a great, uh Description of what the muscle is and how to hit it and how to stretch it But basically it's like doing this quad stretch But in a lunge type of form and pushing your hip forwards that cures a lot of knee pain and helps a lot And that helped me actually like instantly because that muscle gets neglected a lot. So that's what I was doing to kind of Minimize the amount of pain I was having but I was still having pain and I tried everything I tried even resting which is impossible for me Um, meaning like a week or so without jumping just straight rehabbing and the rehabbing was really good Like if I would not jump on it for a couple days and stretch all those days get loose and get the blood flowing And stretch it a lot It got pretty small, but it was always there it never went away and I thought I would never get it away I thought I'd always have some kind of pain just because i'm always jumping and I might have damaged something I might have like no cartilage left But I thought it was just impossible And I was stretching really good like deeper and deeper pushing myself was stretching just like I do in everything else trying to get Um the range of motion is deep as I can with my hip flexibility because I was looking into maybe my hamstrings were tight Which they are and that could cause because everything's connected that could cause the knee pain Hips hamstrings pulls on all your muscles throughout your legs even from like your back So my back was tight everything I tried everything Stretched everything tried to get it and I I did get it as best as I could But it felt like I couldn't get that last piece out and it just felt like Even if I got it like 99 pain free when I would go jump on it again It would just come right back and it wasn't bad. That's why I never complained about it And I didn't think too much about it because I figured it was just there It was just kind of damaged the only way to go away is if I stopped jumping for Like six months, which I'm never going to do and I would let it completely heal up whatever's damaged in there, but um, this is what um kind of Confused me or puzzled me a little bit was I stopped eating wheat because I saw that documentary What's with wheat? I think it's called it tells you all the dangers of wheat all the Caught like bad things why it's bad than what it used to be basically It's like we used to have wheat. It's not really a natural thing for humans to eat and then on top of that We modified it I don't know if modifies the right word because there's a lot linked to the word modified But we changed the way we produce it to make it a higher yield produce more of it And in a smaller place a smaller surface area I I can't explain this but you get the point and by doing that we removed a lot of the nutrients um, it makes it cheaper and It's just really bad for us to digest and things like that. So that's why there's been so much Gluten sensitivity. It's not that people are getting more sensitive. It's that the way we're processing stuff There's a lot more into it. So That being said I think once I stopped doing that stopped eating the wheat And currently I barely eat it. I try really to stay away from it because it's just good for you in general You don't really need it. You can get carbs another way I use a lot of quinoa and rice isn't as bad as wheat But I still try to stay away from rice too, but there's carbs and other things I don't even know all of them off the top of my head, but I just eat a lot of quinoa. I know that's good and uh So what I was saying was I stopped eating wheat and I literally have no pain in both of my knees Because over time I had pain in both knees After just one being bad the other one got bad and I had pain in both And even on my best days like say a best best stretch would be like very minimal pain I jump a little bit of pain no big deal stretch it the pain pretty much goes away But now I have I had such little I had literally no pain for so long Not that long but like a three weeks to a month or something that I I actually forgot I had knee pain. I felt like it just gradually got better and since it wasn't that bad to begin with It wasn't just like from extreme to extreme It just I it slipped my mind that I'm like, oh wait I don't even have any knee pain and I just went to the gym just before this Shout out dunk life. You can get this on dunk life.com the dunk life.com or dunk life.co But I literally did Left right jumping for those dunkers out there, which is like more left plant dominate left leg dominant, which is uh My bad knee no pain. I did one foot off this leg no pain whatsoever and no pain now Like if I do this doesn't even feel so it doesn't even I've never even done this But for those watching the video podcast, I'm touching my knee and that used to be pain no matter what like I knew exactly what it was It was like Very common jumpers knee. It was like right in the common spot, which is like just below the uh Patella whatever the hell it is But um that I used to be able to touch it and feel pain just very just tenderness It wasn't like pain like that much. It just felt like a constant bruise But just now I'm touching it and it's literally no pain and I'm I'm just super excited about that and I know a ton of people are bothered by knee pain and looking for solutions and stretching is great But definitely look into the diet try no wheat or gluten. It's very tough at first It's definitely tough because it's like everything has it. I even check like the only so I take protein bars I just for protein bars and a lot of things I just go gluten-free because some things have like traces of wheat But if you take the majority out, I think you'll see a big difference because some things that you just can't avoid Like I need protein bars for the convenience and I'm always on the go That sounds so weird, but I'm on the go and uh I need something easy that has that's healthy for me like a healthy snack that fills me up as well And it'll say like wheat flour, but it's not wheat. It doesn't have like a ton of wheat. It's not I'm not like eating Bread I'm not eating pasta Which are huge things of wheat and I think you'll feel a big difference and another thing I've noticed is After I stopped eating wheat for um a few weeks And then I tried to eat something with it was like fry it was like fried chicken with like the breading It instantly hurt my stomach and now when I have like really processed food like healthy wheats are okay Like I don't feel it that much, but if I have anything really processed wheat my stomach really feels it So I feel like my body's working correctly now and it doesn't have to fight with these um Alien type of products that we're not really supposed to be putting in our bodies, but um, I hope that makes sense but just to recap The inflammation can be caused by wheat because it damages your stomach And I again, I think this is correct But anyway, I just know that it causes inflammation But it damages your stomach lining because you can't digest it correctly and then all these other problems arise And you just don't have good circulation because of that I think And so The point is the wheat and the gluten can cause inflammation and a whole lot of other problems So if you have any nagging problems Diet could be a huge thing because there's just so many different things that it could lead to and Just It's one thing that definitely has changed and I I was extremely skeptical just like everybody who's probably watching this listening to this I didn't think it was really going to help. You don't really think that taking out bread or things like that really Would affect your knees and I still am skeptical like maybe my stretching just got on point But here's the counter argument to that myself talking to myself is that I stopped stretching Like I used to stretch so much because I wanted to get that knee pain gone And since it disappeared, I just kind of stopped stretching because I there's no need to be doing these like meticulous Painstaking stretches that I'm not flexible and they're really hard I still stretch for other parts of my body, but like these stretches They're not my priority anymore because my body feels really good. My body feels healthy My joints feel healthy and I haven't been stretching. So At the point where my knee pain got away. I was still stretching I'm like, is it the new stretching I'm doing because I'm learning more. I'm doing it harder I'm pushing myself to stretch better Or is it the wheat and I didn't know which one it was but now after stopping stretching which I should Probably get back to just because it's healthy Um It's got to be the wheat because or the gluten whatever you want to call it because I have no pain and I I'd never really stretch I haven't done that knee stretch a specific rectus remorse when I said at the beginning I haven't done that stretch in weeks and I feel great. I just jumped off it Like an hour ago and it feels good and I jumped off it and even during the jumping I didn't feel anything. It feels really good. Um, I've been a super flexible person my whole life. I'm trying to I'm trying to combat that but at the same time It's good to be a little tight for jumping because I actually was going to the sauna so often That I feel like it loosened my body too much that I couldn't exert as much force like a rubber band I feel like I stretched out the rubber band. So it's good to stretch to stay healthy, but I think I'm at a healthy Point of flexibility. I could touch my toes. I could I have a good healthy upper body and my legs are just a little bit tight But I've got giant muscular legs but um So they're pretty flexible, but um, I don't need to be like a yogi master or anything like that to be healthy I don't think I'm still looking into that, but um, I just wanted to share that because it was really Um beneficial to me and I feel like so many people are suffering from the same Knee problems that it could really help you as well And I'll leave it at that. Um Shout out to all my podcast viewers slash listeners I'm going to start doing more podcasts more video podcasts I really really enjoy doing it, especially things like this when I could share Um little things that helped me that I realized that it may be helping a huge amount of people Um, I finally got set up in my little nook over here if you're watching the video podcast in a new apartment So hopefully this I'm it's still a mess in here, but I'm getting set up slowly But surely and these will be cranked out a lot easier and uh more frequent. Um, that's pretty much it so Shout out to the homies shout out to the everybody dunk life. Oh, like I said, if you want this around the website There's socks. There's t-shirts. I got a t-shirt right here So if you're on the video podcast, you're checking out the t-shirt right now I love this shirt, but I'm not a t-shirt guy when I dunk so I'm gonna be cutting the sleeves off Off so that's it. Um Let me know what you think. Let me know if you have any experiences with your uh knee pains and I'm telling you try it, but it might take two to four weeks Based on my zero medical training experience. I'm just saying it takes a little time to kick in, you know But um, give it time if it feels like inflammation in any of your joints. I'm telling you the diet could be the cause of it because Because it is I don't know because we just we're learning a lot more about these foods and um Just eat healthy and take care of your body and it is very important and it will help you and it's good if you want to take Care of your body To do everything you can and the food is so important. I'm learning now and not just like recovery A lot of it is diet. I've never felt healthy. I've never felt more energized and it feels real like it's not just like A thing I don't think I'm just getting better at sleeping or anything like that. I have more energy I don't feel like my body's fighting with the food It feels like I'm fueling it with the right fuel now And we're fueled up And I'll end it with that because I like this for a little bit. I don't know. All right. Well, thanks for watching Thanks for everything Check out my youtube check out my podcast share it. I love it. Um, oh twitter questions I forgot but um, I don't think anybody even tweeted at me since I said it But if you do want to get questions answered, which I'll do on this podcast as well tweet at me at steveysally all the links are below and um Yeah, I like to answer questions on these because I feel like it's really helpful Helps me get to a lot of people a lot faster instead of having that type and stare at my phone. So I'm out. Love you. See you