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Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's midweek segment

called Ask a Nutritionist. I am Brittany Vincent, a registered and licensed dietitian. On today's

show brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness, I will be answering a nutrition question

from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners. And the question today is

wondering what your thoughts are on palmitoyle ethanolamide or P-EA supplement for nerve pain.

I've read up on it some, but I'm sure if it is a safe alternative to meds. Any thoughts? Well, I'm going to just

briefly answer the listener's question. And just FYI, I am going to be referring to this as

PEA throughout the show because it is quite a mouthful. So PEA again stands for

pommatoil ethanolamide. And so again to briefly answer the listeners question, I do think it's

worth taking PEA in supplement form to try to reduce your nerve pain. You know, with any supplement,

it can take time to notice improvement. So I would say give it at least a month before you

determine if it's helpful or not. And sometimes supplements for some people take even longer to

notice the benefits. I know that, I know that a lot of people hope

that you could notice improvement within a week, which is possible, but I always like to set up

realistic expectations. And then the other thing I want to mention, when we're talking about pain and trying

to improve pain, I always suggest that my clients track their pain on some sort of scale that

resonates with them, only because sometimes improvement in pain can be gradual. So if you knew what the level of pain was

before you started supplementing with PEA and then, you know, a month in, six weeks in,

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