Episode 1019: The Mind–Body Connection: Understanding Pain with Dr. David Clarke
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. David Clarke for a wide-ranging conversation about health, pain, and the many factors that shape how people experience illness. Dr. Clarke shares insights from his medical career, discussing how physical symptoms, stress, and life experiences can intersect in ways that aren’t always obvious.
This episode covers a broad range of topics—from pain and illness to personal perspective and resilience—offering an interesting look at the human side of medicine and the many influences that shape both doctors and the people they treat.
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| 0:13.8 | People who had suffered for years, sometimes decades, sometimes people in the hospital with this, |
| 0:19.9 | they could get better if I started paying attention to these issues. |
| 0:23.6 | So today, I've been doing this for 40 years, over 7,000 patients. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm the president of the Association for the Treatment of Neuropastic Symptoms, |
| 0:34.6 | which is what this category is called by my colleagues and myself. |
| 0:39.8 | And it's tremendously rewarding work. We can turn people around who've been in despair. You're training to be a street cop. |
| 0:58.1 | You guys, welcome this episode of Street Cop Training podcast. |
| 1:00.4 | My host founder and CEO Street Cop Training. |
| 1:02.1 | My name is Dennis Benino, and a lot of you know that already. |
| 1:04.4 | But today I have with us Dr. David Clark, who's going to talk about at least anxiety |
| 1:08.6 | and try to help some of us fix some of this shit in our lives. |
| 1:11.2 | But with that being said, instead of me screwing up his bio, I'm going to let him tell you about |
| 1:15.2 | it because I want you to know the qualifications this man shows up with. But with that being said, |
| 1:22.1 | Doc, tell us about you. Yeah, well, I'm a very traditionally trained doctor whose career kind of went off into a different direction, at least for a third of my patients, because that one third had no organ disease or structural damage to account for why they had pain or illness. And they could have pain or illness anywhere from |
| 1:45.2 | head to toe. So I had to kind of dig deeper and uncover the fact that their brain was responsible |
| 1:52.2 | for their symptoms. And this is a whole other category of illness. And it connects to anxiety and depression |
| 1:57.9 | and trauma and childhood adversity. |
| 2:01.6 | Lots of issues I never thought I'd get into as an organ and structure-based doctor, |
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