7: Reducing Stress, Chronic Pain, & Talking to Doctors

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Parenting, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Motherhood, Mom Life, Wellness, Kids & Family, Organic, Health, Natural Living, Self-improvement

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2014

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk to Dr. Kevin Cuccaro of StraightShotHealth.com. I met him a few months ago at a conference and was impressed with his research on stress and dealing with chronic pain.

Many people struggle with chronic pain and Kevin has some valuable strategies for helping recover from it. Kevin is a doctor who left his private practice to pursue patient education and to help address some of the (major) problems in the health care system.

As a doctor, he also provides some valuable insight in how to understand and talk to your doctor so that you can get real answers.

In This Episode, We Discus

3:20 – Why as a doctor, he doesn’t want to see his patients all the time
4:30 – The frustration that doctors face
5:20 – Why stress can be good and why we need it
5:45 – The physiological effects of too much stress
6:30 – How stress impacts fertility and memory
6:55 – The continued effects of stress on the body
7:50 – How to become more resilient to stress and how stress is like a light switch
8:28 – How to turn stress on and off
9:02 – Tips to Practically reduce stress (Book: The Relaxation Revolution)
9:45 – What is the relaxation response
10:20 – How to activate your relaxation response to deal with stress
12:45 – What happens when your body doesn’t recognize stress
16:15 – What causes chronic pain
17:10 – Pain is all in the brain
17:45 – The biology of pain vs. the mental side of pain
20:00 – The core four for reducing stress and pain: Movement, Eating Right, Mindset, Avoiding Problems
24:00 – Understanding the mindset of doctors
28:00 – The frustration of the current medical system
32:00 – The shocking statistic on how a small percentage of the population is using 95% of healthcare resources
35:00 – The seven questions you should know the answers to before you see your doctor
38:00 – Health advice Kevin wishes he had gotten earlier in life
41:15 – Kevin’s recommended books and resources (and see below)

Resources We Mention

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com. Welcome to episode 7 of the Wellness Mama podcast,
0:24.3	where I provide simple answers for healthier families. This episode's interesting facts
0:29.0	are that people under stress who don't handle the stress of financial issues are twice
0:33.9	as likely to develop gum disease than those who don't. Additionally, it's a myth that
0:38.7	stress turns hair gray, but it can cause hair loss. Telegine, effluvium, or hair loss
0:44.2	can start up to three months after a stressful event. And I've actually had personal experience
0:49.0	with that and I made that connection. But there's hope because banging your head against
0:53.5	a wall can burn 150 calories per hour and who knows it might help deal with stress.
0:58.8	As you might have guessed, we're going to be talking a lot about stress today. Our guest
1:02.1	today is Dr. Kevin Cicaro, who has an amazing website and podcast called Straight Shot Health.
1:08.2	And he's a doctor who struggled with the current healthcare system and he was frustrated
1:13.1	because he only got to see patients once they had already gotten sick or had a problem.
1:17.6	So he left his private practice and he now works to help educate patients and focus on
1:22.4	making healthy changes and preventing the problems in the first place. So welcome, Kevin.
1:26.3	Thank you so much for being here. Thank you, Katie. I'm extraordinarily excited to be
1:31.0	here and love what you're doing. Awesome. Thank you. Well, I'm going to go jump right
1:35.7	in because I think you have such great information to start. Can you tell us about your background
1:40.5	and how you got into your current area of expertise? Yeah, sure. So I'm an osteopathic
1:46.1	physician. I went to a DO school to really because I was interested in how the body
1:52.3	related to health and it was moved focus holistically. And then what happened is you get
1:57.9	in a medical school and you start getting into your rotations. And I fell in love with anesthesia.
2:02.5	And I love that operating room environment. I love being able to actually see the effects
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