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My question for all of you listening this morning is, are you experiencing chronic pain?

If you're shaking your head yes right now, I can sympathize with you and it's hard, isn't it?

For some of you, maybe it's arthritis, maybe in your hands or in your back,

or maybe you have joint pain in some other area, or maybe you have ongoing headaches.

Maybe like a lot of people, you have fibromyalgia, so you have that all over muscle pain.

If you have any type of ongoing pain, you're going to want to stay tuned

this morning. You are in for a great show. Today, my co-host and I are going to be talking,

first of all, a lot about the reasons why you might be experiencing pain and inflammation,

and then we'll focus on nutritional solutions. And we should mention too,

and this might surprise some people, that environmental toxins can sometimes be the source of the

pain. And I think one good example is the recent wildfires in Northern California. They've been

causing more lung inflammation for people with asthma and other

types of breathing problems. And in fact, we've even heard reports of people who have never had

any lung issues in the past now having trouble breathing because of the toxins in the air from

the wildfires. So sometimes it can be environmental factors too.

And as registered dietitians at nutritional weight and wellness,

we are well aware that there are a lot of people in this country dealing

with pain and inflammation on an ongoing basis.

But I also think that a lot of those people aren't even aware

that their food choices could be the cause for that pain and that inflammation. It's true that

what we eat and what we don't eat can really affect our pain level. Yes, Cassie, that's so true.

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