#149 The Truth about Pain with Dr Monty Lyman
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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We need to revolutionise our understanding of pain. Most of us hold on to the false belief that pain is a measure of tissue damage, a ‘detector’ of physical injury. But I’m speaking to Dr Monty Lyman who argues that pain is a ‘protector’ rather than a ‘detector’.
Dr Monty Lyman is a medical doctor and research fellow at the University of Oxford and his first book, The Remarkable Life of the Skin, was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, was a Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’ and a Sunday Times ‘Book of the Year’.
Today, Monty and I discuss:
What is pain really?
His personal journey of dealing with pain from IBS
How hypnotherapy and homoeopathy might work to reduce pain
Why loneliness and lack of community can lead to pain
The concept of neuroplasticity
How movement, visualisation and education can help reduce and rewire our relationship with pain
In his new piece of work “The Painful Truth”, he beautifully presents a collection of patient stories, personal experiences and evidence base for a more nuanced understanding of pain and I highly recommend it as a read.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.0 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr's Kitchen. Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:48.8 | An equation is essentially anything that increases safety, increases cues of safety to your brain |
| 0:58.0 | over the long run, can reduce pain, anything that increases cues of threat, increases pain. |
| 1:07.2 | Welcome to The Doctors Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm Dr. Rupi your host, I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, and I'm a firm believer in the |
| 1:25.5 | power of food and lifestyle as medicine. Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the |
| 1:34.1 | multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:43.8 | We need to revolutionize our understanding of pain. Most of us hold on to this false belief that |
| 1:50.9 | pain is a measure of tissue damage and the two are correlated linearly, a detector, a physical |
| 1:59.6 | injury if you will. But I'm speaking to Dr. Monty Lyman who argues that pain is a protector rather |
| 2:07.4 | than a detector. Dr. Monty Lyman is a medical doctor and research fellow at the University of |
| 2:13.7 | Oxford, at least first book, The Remarkable Life of Skin, was shortlisted for the 2019 |
| 2:20.0 | Royal Society Science book prize and was Radio 4's Book of the Week and a Sunday Times book of the |
| 2:27.9 | Year. Today, Monty and I discuss what pain really is, his personal journey of dealing with pain |
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