Can You Eat or Meditate Your Way to Less Pain?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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An estimated 51 million Americans live with chronic pain. But our understanding of pain has evolved and so has the ways we can treat and reduce pain. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how both diet and meditation can affect the way we experience pain. Our show is produced by Eryn Mathewson, Jennifer Lai, Grace Walker, Lori Galarreta, Jesse Remedios, Sofia Sanchez, Kyra Dahring, and Madeleine Thompson.   Medical Writer: Andrea Kane  Showrunner: Amanda Sealy  Senior Producer: Dan Bloom   Technical Director: Dan Dzula Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Paging Dr. Gupta. I love this podcast because I get to hear from you.
0:09.0	I get to hear your questions. And then I get to answer them. We dig into the science. We do our homework.
0:15.0	We talk to experts to try and provide you with the best answers and hopefully some news you can use.
0:21.6	Kira is back with us.
0:23.7	Who do we have first?
0:25.6	Hey, Sanjay.
0:27.0	So at the top of the inbox today is a question from Karen, who wrote in to ask about the effects of diet on pain.
0:33.3	She wants to know which foods and drinks she should limit or eliminate and which are actually helpful.
0:41.3	Okay, Karen, this is a great question.
0:44.1	It's something that I think about all the time.
0:45.9	I think a lot of people are curious about this.
0:48.2	And luckily, there's a fair amount of research on this.
0:51.6	So get out your notebook.
0:53.5	I'm going to tell you what we know after this
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