Control Pain & Heal Faster with Your Brain

In this episode, I describe the science of how and why pain arises in the body and brain, and how we can actively control our experience of pain. I discuss inflammation, stress, acupuncture, limb damage and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). I review protocols that leverage the lymphatic and nervous system to accelerate pain relief and healing in a variety of situations. Other topics discussed include how heat versus cold impacts neurons and wounds, red-light, sunlight, stem cells and more.

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Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction/Avenues for Support
00:04:58 Deliberate Unlearning
00:06:43 Pain, Injury and Regeneration
00:09:17 A System of Touch (Somatosensation)
00:11:42 Pain and Injury are Dissociable
00:15:19 Objective versus Subjective Control of Experience
00:16:15 Plasticity of Perception
00:16:41 Lack of Pain Is Self-Destructive; So Is Excessive Pain
00:18:42 Homoculous, Ratonculous, Dogunculus
00:19:05 “Sensitivity” explained
00:21:30 Inflammation
00:22:24 Phantom Limb Pain
00:24:00 Top-down Relief of Pain by Vision
00:26:41 From Deaf to Hearing Sounds
00:28:10 Pain Is In The Mind & Body
00:29:44 Recovering Movement Faster After Injury
00:35:00 Don’t Over Compensate
00:37:34. Concussion, TBI & Brain Ageing
00:40:49 The Brain’s Sewage Treatment System: Glymphatic Clearance
00:43:05 Body Position & Angle During Sleep
00:44:30 Types of Exercise For Restoring & Maintaining Brain Health
00:47:33 Ambulance Cells in The Brain
00:49:20 True Pain Control by Belief and Context
00:51:45 Romantic Love and Pain
00:55:05 Dopaminergic Control of Pain
00:57:15 Acupuncture: Rigorous Scientific Assessment
01:07:32 Vagus Activation and Autonomic Control of Pain
01:08:30 Inflammation, Turmeric, Lead and DHT
01:11:40 Adrenalin: Wim Hof, Tummo, “Super-Oxygenation” Breathing
01:14:53 Protocols For Accelerating Tissue Repair & Managing Pain
01:17:55 Ice Is Not Always Nice (For Pain and Injury): Sludging, Fascia, Etc.
01:22:02 Chronic and/or Whole Body Pain; Red-Light Therapy, Sunlight
01:26:10 Glymphatics and Sleep
01:26:29 Stem Cells, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP: Shams, Shoulds and Should Nots
01:31:38 Young Blood: Actual Science
01:35:44 Synthesis, Support & Resources

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