How to reduce chronic pain

Reduce Chronic Pain Relief 

We are going to be talking about how to reduce chronic pain. I was reading, over 80% of people at some point will struggle with chronic low back pain, and a number of people that at some are going to struggle with pain in their life. It pretty much everybody multiple times. So we know we've got some natural ways today were going to be talking about how to reduce chronic pain and inflammation.

So if you're a person watching today or knows somebody with arthritis, fibromyalgia, any type of muscle pain, maybe you tore an ACL or a shoulder in the past, or have muscle spasms, or any type of pain, even neck pain, back pain, and headaches, were going to talk about how to overcome those conditions today. A lot of people experience chronic pain. What are some of the things that people turn to instead of these natural approaches as a starter? 

Well, it pretty interesting that the narcotic pain killers, well start there because these are sort of the highest class. Were looking at serious issues, one being an addiction. So we've seen a lot of athletes that were fans of being addicted to pain killers, right?  So you've got an issue with addiction to these pain killers and you've got serious side effects that now there a medication for the medication-medication. Anyway, so that just the narcotic opioid pain killers. Then you've got Cox-2 inhibitors. We know that Vioxx and Celebrex, super, super popular. I know that many athletes today are on those for years and then certainly, some of us in the civilian population. And not just in NSAIDs. People are using Aspirin, Ibuprofen, etc, day after day after day. And I'm not suggesting that there never a time for pain killers, there never a time for medications. But what if there were natural methods that didn't cause constipation but actually helped your gut? What if there were natural methods that didn't cause toxicity but actually helped you detoxify? We call that a twofer. So everything we're going to talk about today to combat your chronic pain, migraines, tendonitis, knee pain, back pain as you mentioned is absolutely endemic in America, and the list goes on and on, psoriatic arthritis, pain from fibromyalgia, pain from various traumas. It going to be fast-moving. 

So were going to jump in and talk about the top vitamin, supplements, herbs, essential oils, and foods, and natural treatments to overcome chronic pain today. Turmeric has many great compounds, Curcumin or curcuminoids are powerful antioxidants and pain reducers, but they also have turmerones, which are powerful for the brain and we believe, many other areas. So turmeric extract, which is high in curcumin, and turmeric oil, either a CO2 or essential oil, has the ultimate compliment. You can use turmeric in a tea, in a decoction. People are using it now topically. It absolutely amazing for the brain, for the gut, for the immune system. But if you're in pain, or better yet, if you're ageing and you want to avoid it, I recommend consuming turmeric extract every day and turmeric oil. So again, turmeric extract and the CO2 oil, very powerful at naturally reducing inflammation. As we're talking about, millions of people right now are struggling with chronic, and they don't know the natural treatments. They don't know that they can use food as medicine. So oil has some really incredible compounds. I recommend mixing that with other essential oils, warming and cooling oil. But again, turmeric and frankincense, two of the most powerful herbs or supplements you can take or oils in terms of reducing chronic pain.

Talk about how holy basil can really support the body in reducing pain. All of these herbs and spices are high in antioxidants which helps the cells protect themselves and really reduce inflammation. Holy basil is great for the mood, it great for the brain, and it has anti-inflammatory effects, similar to a natural Cox-2 inhibitor. Holy basil oil and turmeric oil arent very commonly found but they're both amazing. They're floral, they're wonderful. Take it orally, helps your mood, helps really your entire body. One thing that I want to talk about, depression and anxiety, is painful. Now it doesn't affect prostaglandins or eicosanoids or sort of the hormones involved in pain, but it serious pain. So holy basil can lighten your mood and brighten your day by transforming your health. I recommend using a holy basil extract, making a tea or an infusion out of it, taking holy basil oil, and were working on all kinds of ways to help you with content, information, education, and products to get these into your life. In India and around the world, people consume these botanicals each and every day to maintain a pain-free life. Holy basil, incredible as an adaptogen.

The next one here is a chili pepper, and remember chilli peppers there really increase circulation. If you're a person as well that has cold extremities, maybe your hands get cold and your feet get cold, and you're having heart issues and just don't have good circulation, chili peppers, whether it cayenne or ghost pepper, all of these have tremendous benefits at really improving circulation and reducing chronic pain. In fact, capsaicin, one of those compounds found in cayenne pepper specifically, is a great natural pain reliever. There a study, where turmeric was taken with a compound, or curcumin is taken with piperine, which is one of the main compounds found in black pepper, actually, help bio-availability, helped to get better throughout the body. But chilli peppers and capsaicin are going to work in a very similar manner. They're going to open up the capillaries that going to allow these other anti-inflammatory compounds to get throughout the body. So remember this, when you're taking a turmeric supplement, oftentimes it also beneficial to take a chili supplement with it or some sort of supplement that has hot peppers in it.

Number five is wintergreen oil. Now, wintergreen is a powerful topical analgesic. And analgesic is a pain killer. In fact, wintergreen has very strong medicinal properties. So if you are making a rub or if you want to overcome joint issues, muscle issues, wintergreen is amazing. Inhaling it is really good too because, through olfaction, you can begin to lessen pain. What interesting about pain is a lot of times, there an emotional component to it, and you can actually work through or overcome pain. That how people walk on hot coals and do all these punch bricks, etc. And essential oils help to energize the mind and make you more resilient to pain. We know that in the fighting arena, Muay Thai fighters, they do just wild things, put their hands in glass and all of that. That all helps to really deaden your nerve endings and sense of pain. But wintergreen is great topically as an analgesic and can help relieve pain, often in minutes. If you have essential oil that you've ever used and you saw results with it, specifically for any type of chronic pain, maybe there an essential oil you use for muscle aches, maybe for headaches, wed love to hear the single or maybe the combination of essential oils you use that have helped you relieve some sort of chronic pain, discomfort, maybe a burn, but any type of sort of pain or inflammatory issue you have.

All right, so rosemary oil, we know it great for naturally thickening the hair, but also medical studies have shown it helps reduce inflammation as well as cortisol levels. He really believed it was because of some of the things that he was doing naturally. Really, he supported, he felt like it was his mindset in helping overcome chronic pain. We know rosemary oil works both on the brain as well as on your body at a cellular level at reducing chronic inflammation. So again, it great to mix theses oils. We've mentioned this before, mixing wintergreen oil with another essential oil, rosemary and some others, rubbing it directly on an area, you can mix it with some coconut oil, but we know these essential oils are powerful.

Number seven here, I know what we believe is the number one superfood everybody should be getting. And I know I had bone broth powder protein this morning for breakfast, two scoops of it. Bone broth has many anti-inflammatory components. Were talking about collagen, chondroitin, glucosamine. Those are proteoglycans. They actually are polysaccharide-based compounds that help mediate pain really, really amazingly well. We know glycine and proline are powerful amino acids, even minerals such as potassium and the glycosaminoglycan, I know I'm saying a lot of long words, hyaluronic acid is powerful for pain and inflammation. when you buy bone broth frozen or packaged, when you take a bone broth powder, you're having an anti-inflammatory effect. And I believe people begin to feel it in about four days. You need to do a few cups a day equivalent. But in a few days, you'll begin to feel it and it has a crescendo effect. That means every day you get better and better. And I've said this many times, I just I really got into bone broth more heavily than ever when I had a knee injury, and it was a serious one. I was on crutches, I didn't walk for two and a half months with a knee condition and I was able to implement a radical bone broth protocol. I was doing between 24 and 48 ounces a day of bone broth and then I was doing bone broth powder, doing them both, and I've gotten better and better. And now, I'm able to have a subpar performance on the basketball court occasionally. So I'm seeing great results day by day, this is really the backbone of anti-inflammatory chronic pain program. I have heard people say, " When I'm consuming bone broth, I'm good.& quote; But when they stop and don't get those nutrients and beneficial compounds, they begin to hurt. Bone broth doesn't just mitigate pain, it helps to rebuild things, which is pretty cool. Something we don't have on the board, but I would definitely recommend as well as an omega-3 supplement, getting a lot of omega-3 every single day, and then lots of fruits and veggies. You do that, you should start to get some relief from those RA symptoms there as well. But in addition to bone broth and turmeric, I highly recommend not just an omega-3 but one that has high in EPA. And if you have rheumatoid arthritis, there a great study showing 12,000 milligrams of omega-3 a day from fish not from flax, for I want to say 12 weeks, produce great results with medication and on its own.

So I'm going to talk about next here, chiropractic care. If you are struggling with chronic, especially joint issues, chiropractic care can be great. In fact, there a study I read recently finding that chiropractic care was five times more effective than NSAIDs at actually treating long-term neck pains. So if somebody is having chronic neck pain or low back pain or pain in the mid-back, we know chiropractic care works. Pain can be caused by different things, that a whole thing.

Your pain can be caused by a chemical reaction in the body.
It can be caused by inflammation.
It can be caused by a lack of mobility in a joint.
It can be caused by a muscular spasm.
It can be caused by instability.

There are lots of different causes of chronic pain. And so, obviously, diet is crucial and key at reducing system-wide inflammation. But if you have a misalignment or you have a lack of mobility in a joint, it kind of like this sewage builds up, new nutrients aren't getting in, and so what can happen is it can start causing issues where the joint degenerates. What a great thing about chiropractic care. It helps increase motion in the joints, it can help improve posture, realign the spine, and help the body heal naturally. Now, were going to talk about something, actually, someone just asked a question about soft tissue therapy, and I want to say bodywork and soft tissue therapy, whether it be ART or Graston or other types, but getting that deep tissue massage or different sort of muscular therapy. We know yoga can be really good. And there something called Gyrotonic that is an immune-enhancing anti-inflammatory type of workout. So we kind of, I don't know if you've seen recently, but Tom Brady has really gotten out there and said that everybody is exercising wrong for the most part and he extending his career using some of these types of techniques that really have an eastern background. So what they're doing is they're actually hitting on the entire part of the muscle not just one point, but they're actually doing it in its active range of motion, which allows you to hit more fibers. So again, a lot of bodywork is great. ART is one that I had used and seen great results with. So you might check that out in terms of a deep tissue body therapy. But sometimes, it cant heal all of it and you can be left there with a tear in your labrum or an AC joint or some sort of ligamentous tear in your shoulder. What people are doing today is they're going and having their own blood drawn, they reconcentrating it down to just the platelet, which is about 6% of your blood, and your body platelets are where all of your growth and healing factors are in your blood. What they're doing is they're drawing their blood and going to that site of an old injury, reinjecting it with these growth factors, and is actually able to repair and heal that damaged joint or tissue. So if you're a person that has a past history of a rotator cuff tear, an ACL injury that partial tear in your knee, even things with like arthritis or disc injuries or any type of chronic pain, you may consider doing something like PRP, it platelet-rich plasma. And sort of another thing they oftentimes do now, Jordan, along with PRP is called stem cell therapy. They actually take your body stem cells, which can be even more powerful than your blood at helping repair damaged tissues. But the truth is, top athletes and cutting edge research points to these as being much more safe, and soon they're going to be integrated everywhere. It amazing that athletes a lot of times have their own chiropractors. They have their own massage therapists. They get acupuncture, which we don't have on here. I know were going to talk a little bit about that. And the truth is, these need to be looked at. Athletes need to perform every day, they have the resources to do it. So we're learning a lot of how athletes keep their bodies to perform to use for the regular folks. So with dry needling, dry needling is where this is done by acupuncturists years ago, forms of it today, there are actually other trainers and people that will specifically do dry needling.
Essentially, it does a similar thing. This is best for trigger points or one of the best things. If you're a person that gets chronic trigger points in your neck, in your shoulders, or your muscles, dry needling, you can go with it, it just causes the muscle to release and relax. And oftentimes it increases blood flow to the area, so it really uses your body's own healing mechanism to heal the area. So that really the way dry needling works.

Infrared therapy, which is typically now practised with infrared saunas is really great and there good studies on pain relief. In fact, infrared radiation, which is healthy radiation, by the way, it what they use in incubators. It can go about an inch deep, sometimes just a centimetre. But it is not simply heating, it is actually driving some of these healing rays into your body. So if you've got sore joints, etc, it a great thing to do and helps you detoxify some of the excess sodium and some of the excess compounds. When you do infrared therapy, particularly if heat is involved, you're losing heavy metals, you are excreting some of those things, which is really, really great. I use an infrared sauna. There are some great and affordable infrared saunas. There also infrared mats that you can lay on or sleep on. So look into infrared therapy, you'll be glad you did and hydrotherapy is pretty similar. This is really affordable. Back in the old day, and this might sound cruel, people would go to these clinics in Germany, these spa clinics, and people that were in wheelchairs who were really sick, one of the treatments was to dump a big bucket of ice in the water on their head, like on their body. What it does, similar to chilli pepper is it sort of shocks your body into making a lot of anti-inflammatory compounds. So some of those people who are polar bears that go swimming in freezing water in the winter. But hydrotherapy is using water to heal. There things such as the Kneipp water bath, which is really cold. Germany is the pioneer in my mind of a lot of these hydrotherapies. The simple thing you can do at home, hot/cold shower. Turn your shower to as warm a stream as you can handle and try to get it to be on the area of pain. But even if you do it for your whole body for one minute, as warm as you can handle, then turn it as cold as you can handle, which is just all the way because cold isn't going to hurt anybody. It amazing, when you do that for a cycle of six, so hot, cold, repeat six times, the hot feels cold, the cold feels hot. On my first skiing trip, I was in a hot tub in Vail and then I would jump in the snow with just my swim trunks on to make a snow angel, then I jump back in the hot tub, hot felt cold, the cold felt hot, but you are invigorated. So hydrotherapy can be done in your shower. It is really, really great to release some of the stored up stress, it great to release muscles, and it so affordable, anyone can do it, it good for the immune system, too.

Systemic or proteolytic enzymes, getting your vitamin D levels right, getting sunshine is great for pain, walking on the beach or walking barefooted, swimming. There are so many amazing ways to release and reduce chronic pain. But if you take a look at this board, folks, if you're suffering from migraines, back pain, knee pain, a lot of folks who even played sports on the high school level, have old injuries, these 14 secrets to relieve and reduce chronic pain can not only help you get out of pain but can help avoid those horrible side effects that prescription pain killers are causing and they are rampant. The users of NSAIDs, tens of millions, the users of opioid-controlled substances, narcotics, massive. Their addiction, there bleeding, there a reduction in motility. All of that can be avoided and you can remove the pain by practising these 14 secrets.

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