
Pain, Pain Go Away!
• Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined.
• Pain is cited as the most common reason Americans access the health care system. It is a leading cause of disability and it is a major contributor to healthcare costs.
• According to the National Center for Health Statistics (2006), approximately 76.2 million, one in every four Americans, have suffered from pain that lasts longer than 24 hours and millions more suffer from acute pain.
• Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability.
Certain nutrients can also help with minimizing pain and improving strength and structure to minimize the progression of issues that are at the root of causation.
Some people will make high levels of a hormone called leptin, which will tell your body to gain more weight and will also attack cartilage, destroy joints and contribute to pain. By measuring and treating this can be prevented. Injections, such as prolozone have high success rates of treating pain, both acute and chronic.
By changing your diet, and changing your biochemistry, you can change your internal environment which can lead to a decrease or cessation of pain and inflammation. Inflammation can be controlled by finding the cause and treating accordingly in a way that can help to limit and reverse the devastating impact of pain and give your life back to you.
The cells in our intestinal wall form a tight junction that extracts nutrients, keeps our food moving, and forms a barrier. One of the things that gut inflammation does over the long term is to loosen those cell junctions. This is the “leaky gut” syndrome you may have heard about. Leaky gut impacts our ability to absorb nutrients, causes pain and cramping in the gut, and perpetuates inflammation throughout the body. Leaky gut also elevates levels of Zonulin in the body, which drives the spiral of inflammation higher and higher, making the inflammation chronic and the gut harder to heal. In fact, high Zonulin levels are suspected to be a major cause of autoimmune diseases, and not just those that are known to start in the gut like Crohn’s Disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and Celiac Disease, but also other autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and others. Healing the gut by identifying allergens and rebuilding the gut lining with probiotics and other supplements can be the step forward you might need for pain management.