Being healthy doesn't mean that you need to spend 20 hours each week in the gym. Even little things like standing at work can make a big improvement in your overall health. On the other hand, a sedentary lifestyle is a significant factor in many chronic diseases, as well as spinal aches and pains.
When farmers plant, they don't question the seed's innate ability to grow and produce crops. Neither do they dig the seeds up every day to verify they’re maturing underground. They simply prepare the soil as best as they can and trust nature to handle the rest.
The weight of a dime, 8-10 mm of Hg, that's all it takes to drain normal nerve transmission to a trickle. Stretching a nerve by as little as 6% can also decrease its signal strength by 70%. So what does that mean for you?
You rarely hear a medical doctor prescribing to their patients the same care they do for their own families. Think about it. When was the last time your MD said "…here, try some of these antidepressants, statins and stomach acid inhibitors. I take them ALL to stay healthy and I give them to my family too."
Your doctor determined from your last set of X-Rays that you have arthritis in your spine. Now you're concerned with how it got there. Was it the physical stress of your job? The 15 years of league bowling? Or maybe the accident you had when you were a teenager? It's hard to tell.