Dr. David Hanscom: Surgery and Meds DON’T Solve Chronic Symptoms (Here’s What Does)

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom, MD, explains why chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and medically unexplained symptoms are rooted in threat physiology—and how to escape this trap without surgeries or medications that ignore the root cause and can’t offer a cure.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 🌟 Meet Dr. David Hanscom
03:04 🏥 Dr. Hanscom's Personal Story
07:11 🔄 Surgeon's Approach to Chronic Symptom Care
09:00 ⚡ Threat Physiology: The Real Root of Chronic Illness
10:36 🧠 You Can’t “Think” Your Way Out
12:19 🚫 Unnecessary Spine Surgeries
14:22 🔥 Is This Medically Unexplained Symptoms
16:12 🧬 How Stress Chemistry Breaks Down Your Body
18:00 🛑 Stop Fighting Pain - Start Living Again
20:07 🗣️ Prescription: No Complaining, Criticism, or Gossip
22:23 🧩 Input, Nervous System, Output
24:09 💡 Stopping the Fix-It Cycle
26:42 🧩 Why “Fixing” Reinforces Pain Circuits
28:22 🧠 Anxiety, Depression, OCD
30:19 🧩 How to End Repetitive Thoughts
32:58 🧱 This Blocks Healing
36:43 🤔 Skepticism Is the Starting Point
38:23 ⏳ How Long Does It Take To Recover?
40:55 🧑⚕️ Why Most Doctors Still Don’t Get It

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REMINDER: This is for information purposes only and nothing I share should be considered medical advice. Please make your own assessment, do your own further research, and consult your trusted healthcare professionals before deciding if anything I talk about here might be right for you.

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