670: Managing Chronic Pain with Dr. Mel Pohl

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Chronic pain affects as many as 1 in 5 people worldwide and can lead to a huge reduction in quality of life, drug addiction, and very desperate outcomes. Today’s guest helps people use tools like mindfulness and therapy - among others - to manage and even reverse pain naturally.

Listen and Learn:

Why pain isn’t always physical. Chronic pain often comes from the brain, not the body.
Non-opioid treatment approaches to chronic pain
How mindfulness techniques like pain reprocessing can cut chronic pain by 50%.

LINKS

https://www.drmelpohl.com

https://thepointemalibu.com/

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Mel Pohl is a family physician specializing in addiction medicine and chronic pain management. He is the Senior Medical Consultant for the Pain Recovery Program at The Pointe Malibu Recovery Center and previously served as Chief Medical Officer at the Las Vegas Recovery Center. He has written books on chronic pain, including The Pain Antidote, and focuses on non-opioid treatment approaches.

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0:00.0	Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts for three months or longer, and all around the world,
0:06.6	something like one in five people are struggling with this.
0:09.7	Might be back pain, joint pain, migraines, nerve pain, autoimmune condition pain.
0:15.4	This can affect your work performance, your emotional life, your quality of life in general.
0:19.5	It's one of the big drivers behind the original opioid epidemic that has now turned into a fentanyl
0:26.1	epidemic.
0:27.1	Some of this, of course, is unrelated, but a huge initial driver is chronic pain, very real physical,
0:32.6	physiological, psychological pain, all of the above.
0:35.6	The confusing thing is sometimes fixing what started the
0:39.3	pain condition in the first place doesn't stop the pain, and the path forward is often opaque
0:45.2	and confusing. On this week's podcast, you'll meet a pain specialist who explores all different
0:50.4	opportunities to help people alleviate what can be a really debilitating condition.
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