Embracing Pain to Resolve It | Yoni Whitten
The Lindsey Elmore Show
Lindsey Elmore
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The prevalence of chronic pain in the United States is estimated to range between 11 and 40% of all adults. |
| 0:08.5 | Low black pain is the most common chronic condition, and women over the age of 65 are the most likely to suffer from chronic pain. |
| 0:18.9 | This is debilitating and costs the United States up to $635 billion |
| 0:23.9 | annually. And to make it worse, people who suffer from chronic pain are eight to ten times |
| 0:31.1 | more likely to have severe depression and one in four people with chronic pain have been diagnosed with a sleep |
| 0:39.2 | disorder at least 10% of the world's population is affected by chronic pain and this is really |
| 0:46.5 | bad because western medicine is very bad at treating chronic pain we ignore conventional advice on just how important movement and exercise |
| 0:57.9 | and diet is to the resolution of pain. We also ignore stress reduction techniques such as |
| 1:06.2 | focused breath work in the treatment of pain. Instead, we begin a cycle of medications that sometimes |
| 1:15.9 | begins with over-the-counters, maybe that you might pick up on your own, but can quickly |
| 1:22.6 | escalate to the use of opiate medications, which are horribly addictive, and we're going to |
| 1:33.5 | learn today can actually worsen the outcomes of pain. Or you slide down a pathway of medications |
| 1:40.7 | that, in my estimation, don't typically do much to resolve pain, but can be given |
| 1:49.2 | at doses that are extraordinarily high causing side effects. These are medications like gabapentin |
| 1:57.4 | and pre-gabalin that they don't always have the best effect. |
| 2:02.6 | And so the doses keep going up and up and up until you have so many side effects that you |
| 2:10.1 | don't even know how to reel it back. |
| 2:14.1 | My guest today is Dr. Yoni Witten, and we're going to be talking all about how we can stop pain in its tracks by getting back to the evolutionary way that our body is designed to function. |
| 2:29.2 | This is the Lindsay Elmore Show. |
| 2:31.7 | Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy. |
| 2:36.9 | With honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, thought leaders, |
| 2:42.5 | creatives, and spiritual gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks |
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