Don’t Let Chronic Pain Control Your Life
Chronic pain is epidemic and traditional treatments are causing health disasters in this country. The widespread use of NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) are wreaking havoc on the health of many worldwide and they might not even know it’s happening. These are meant to be used for acute pain and short term use, but there are many people that are taking them every day for years. Long term use of these drugs can cause kidney damage, fluid retention, liver stress, create a higher risk of heart disease, and can cause damage to the gut.
Are there other options? YES. It’s not the norm to be walking around in pain on a daily basis. There are many habits and lifestyles that contribute to this type of pain without you even knowing it. What we eat, our activity levels, our emotions all play a role in our discomfort levels. We’re here to say that there is hope and it’s possible to live pain free. We’ll cover natural supplements and new habits that can help you on the journey to living without pain.
Some Topics We Discussed:
What is chronic pain? (1:35)
What are the common side effects of NSAIDS? (3:18)
What causes chronic pain? (6:42)
What is the protocol for addressing chronic pain? (20:25)
What is the ideal diet for chronic pain management? (37:12)
What about using CBD for pain? (37:47)
Key Takeaways From This Episode:
Chronic Pain is affecting 1.5 billion people worldwide. (2:05)
There's nothing wrong with three to seven days of these drugs. What's wrong is that six months and beyond is where the damage is occurring. (5:19)
If you have too much omega-6 in your diet you will have issues with pain. (23:03)
Glucosamine helps put moisture back in the cartilage. (30:32)
Be very picky when selecting a curcumin product. (33:18)
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Brian Strickland 00:11 Hey, everybody, welcome back to The Holistic navigator Podcast, where we believe in the body's ability to heal itself. My name is Brian Strickland, and I'm the producer of the show. And I'm joined in studio as always by your host Ed Jones. Ed, how you doing today?
Ed Jones 00:59 Could not be better just had my first grandchild. So I'm riding pretty high right now.
Brian Strickland 01:04 Congratulations. I know that's exciting. But on today's episode, we're speaking about some natural means to help regulate chronic pain. Chronic Pain is a nightmare for many, but there may be some habits in your life that are contributing to it. The good news is there are some simple lifestyle changes that can actually help you live pain free. So Ed to start, could you explain to the listeners what type of chronic pain you'll be speaking about in how many people are actually living on a daily basis with some sort of chronic pain?
Ed Jones 01:35 Thank you, Brian. And I think most listeners will probably understand the term chronic pain. What I mean by chronic pain is the aches, the stiffness, the moving slowly, the twinges that come when daily activities are occurring. I'm not talking about the pain that comes if you did something at the gym by overworking or you stubbed your toe or something far more major. That's an acute pain. Chronic Pain is affecting 1.5 billion people worldwide. The numbers are saying that is tremendous, huge amounts. Now, why do we care? Well, one reason that is significant is because the treatment that most people grasp very quickly, is causing tremendous health disasters in his country. That is the use of NSAIDS, non steroidal anti inflammatories, and those are things like aspirin and naproxen ibuprofen. And there are so many side effects to those that are only recently Brian coming to the forefront. It's been known for a lot of years, but it's kind of been hidden. And that's why conventional medicine continues to operate from the perspective of almost all drugs are perfectly fine and relatively safe. So don't worry, we will take care of it if you have a side effect. Of course, the option that conventional medicine offers is another drug to counter normally the first drug side effects. And in 41 years, I have certainly witnessed the devastation of many people's health due to the use of these drugs.
Brian Strickland 03:18 So what are some of the common side effects of NSAIDS?
Ed Jones 03:21 Well, anyone who's taken them very long occasionally would know the quick side effects could be indigestion, dizziness, drowsiness, those are not significant. Actually, Brian, the ones that I'm totally concerned about is fluid retention, kidney damage, which will occur almost exclusively if you use them every day for long term periods of time, liver issues, liver stress. It affects the heart, it can create a far higher risk of heart disease, and of course, the gut ulcers. I remember a pharmacist long ago I think his name was Joe Graden. And he wrote some very popular books and this was back in the 90s. And I'll always remember a lecture I heard from him. It said every single aspirin and nonsteroidal anti inflammatory you take, you will bleed one quarter teaspoon of blood in your gut. Yep, one quarter teaspoon. Now, you know, that's not a big amount. But if you're doing this, like many people are, which is morning and night, and you're taking two, that's significant, very significant, so is causing huge amount of gut damage, much less the bleeding issue that's going on.
Brian Strickland 04:37 Yeah, that was gonna be my next question is what kind of dosing are we talking about to hit those dangerous levels?
Ed Jones 04:42 They actually are the recommended dose on the box. We know people sometimes will abuse that and take more. Of course, if you'd cut that dose far down, then it's less of a side effect, but then again, you don't get the results. Now I am not going to sit here and say that I've never taken a pill like that, because what these are meant to be used for is those very short run terrible moments and days when you have done something like injured yourself, whether it be an accident or just a terrible pain or fever, because you're sick. There's nothing wrong with three to seven days of these drugs. What's wrong is that six months and beyond is where the damage is occurring. And I'll tell you, Brian, I know you didn't meet this lady. But I have worked with clients for now over 41 years, and there was a lady who was coming to me for probably 25 years. Her name is Esther Holly. And she was an interesting lady, she really embraced nutritional supplementation and healthy diets. I remember so well, her coming to me when she was 92 years old. And she finally her body was wearing out. I mean, who would not want that had 91 great years, and at 92, she was struggling. And she said, told me I have never had an ache or a pain or a headache in my entire life until this year. So we don't have to walk around thinking it's the norm to always have pain, because it's not. And if you go into nature very often, yes, the very elderly animals will be struggling. But I can tell you most of those struggles that they are you're observing is because of injuries they've had far more than growing old. And we know why this chronic pain is happening, or at least I do believe I do. And I'm here to share, what can we do to not have our life and gobble us up with this pain?
Brian Strickland 06:42 This is the norm for a lot of people, I mean, really around the world. So obviously, there's got to be some underlying causes for an individual to be taking inserts every day for an extended period of time. So could you explain why somebody might be having this type of pain day in and day out?
Ed Jones 07:02 Absolutely, because this is not the explanation you will get from your conventional medical people. One number one reason is emotions. Yes. What you think, what you feel, contributes to significant levels of toxic emotions and those will create more discomfort. You know, long ago, Sigmund Freud said this, and I love this quote, "Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways." And then secondly, one of my heroes of my life, Dr. John Sarno. He passed away a couple years ago, and he spent his whole career with this one single philosophy. Chronic pain generally, is caused, in his opinion, because of repressed emotions. When I looked into it, and I studied his writings, we as Americans, especially run from emotions that are painful. We bury them, we distract ourselves from them. And what happens is, if they start creeping back up on us, the body will produce a physical pain so that you don't have to deal with the emotional pain. And I have seen people who have gone through Dr. John Sarno's books literally just read the book. And they're 15 years of chronic back pain disappeared. Because it was truly nothing wrong with the back. It was a distraction from the emotions. And these emotions can come from early in life. We are punished by living sometimes and just being here. And if we repress that we bury it, we put the smile on the face, it's not healthy, and it is gonna create more chronic pain in some people. Some people one of my techniques for helping address this is something called EFT Emotional Freedom Technique. It's actually using acupuncture points, and you tap on them with your fingers, easy to learn. You don't even have to buy a book on there's plenty of free information. If you Google EFT, you can learn that. Secondly, is actually believe it or not, Brian, one of the reasons we have chronic pain is because we use painkillers. I've been telling people this same story about 15 years, because I saw it happen on multiple occasions. I don't know if you take daily painkillers, Brian, but I'm telling you if you don't, and I recommend it to you right now. I want you to take two aspirin, morning lunch and supper for four months. No you don't need it right now but I can tell you what's going to happen. In four months, the day after you quit taking it. You're going to have a probable massive headache. You're going to walk around like you're 40 years older because these drugs actually are, they're not addictive, but the body starts kind of compensating. And they're changing chemistry. So when you don't have them, actually the pain is created. So let's say we're giving people these things for pain, but in a roundabout way, is creating more pain. Wow, what a what a wonderful dream for the people who manufacture the pills. So that's needs to be considered when you're trying to come off of these things. Third, poor sleep. Yes, I can assure you that if you have on a pain scale of one to 10 right now. And if you're well rested, and let's say your pain scale, you would count perhaps count as a two. If you have had many poor night's sleep, it will be at least double which is four and could be up to six, the same exact pain, because, or sleep raises cortisol and insulin. And those are messengers that make the message far more potent. Number four, something some people know about and many people don't and your conventional medical people absolutely do not called leaky gut syndrome. That was another one we did a podcast on with Meredith Mason, a nurse practitioner. I have worked with clients for so long now, that will not and cannot get well, simply because the gut continues to be in a very poor state of health. One of those reasons is the drugs they have consumed, which is antibiotics and painkillers. Leaky gut I'm not going to explain it here but we did this podcast early on again. And if you have what we consider leaky gut, you truly cannot be healthy until you actually do something to stop the damage and repair the basically the holes that are in the gut.
Brian Strickland 11:57 Which is possible, though.
Ed Jones 11:59 Very possible, it does take you being educated on how to do this, you don't have to see a practitioner. If you could find a good functional medicine practitioner, it would be wonderful to do it. But you don't have to. I give enough advice that I think you can do this on your own. And again, I will say as I do all of my podcast, not treating any medical conditions, this is here to educate you only and if you have medical issues, talk to somebody that you trust before doing any of this. Fifth, Lyme disease and auto immune. I'm putting both in the same category. Lyme disease, as many people know if you know anyone who has it, it devastates so much of the body and pain is always a part of it fatigue, foggy thinking. And the conventional information says that you don't have it because there's many Doc's who say we don't even have Lyme disease in this part of the country or this or that. And it's rare. Well, it's not people. I can tell you that it's truly, truly not. And the people I trust do believe that mosquitoes could be a carrier for Lyme disease.
Brian Strickland 13:11 Wow, I didn't know that now.
Ed Jones 13:12 And just because you don't see a Red Bull's eye, does not mean that you did not get bit by tick that could have infected you.
Brian Strickland 13:19 What about something like Fibromyalgia would that fall into that category as well?
Ed Jones 13:24 Fibromyalgia can fall into many categories, one of which it mimics lyme disease mimics Fibromyalgia sometimes, but it also falls somewhat in the auto immune compartment, which is the same category. I'm a huge fan of, you know, non harsh drugs to treat autoimmune, and I'm not going to speak much on it here. But my number one most favorite drug of my entire life is called low dose naltrexone and we will have this printed somewhere for you to read about. But anyone with autoimmune needs and has to pursue this drug. 100% safe and your conditional people will not know it. Low dose naltrexone. Now on the autoimmune, the very last thing is it is so important to embrace nutrition with autoimmune. And what is autoimmune? It's where your body's immune system starts seeing its own cells as enemies rather than friends. Why does that happen? Hey, you know what we go back to the number one thing I said earlier emotions, buried ones will cause autoimmune. I have asked probably, I'm only guessing 5000 of my clients over the 41 years who had autoimmune which is generally either Crohn's or rheumatoid. And I will always say this exact thing. Have you had something extremely stressful in the past 12 months? And 90% of them will always say yes, yes, and yes. Now sometimes it can be cumulative. There's not a trigger and it could just be the cup runneth over. But emotions are huge for that. So I encourage everyone to not poopoo that kind of philosophy and truly delve into that.
Brian Strickland 15:10 I mean, isn't it amazing how our, our mental and emotional state can affect our physical bodies?
Ed Jones 15:14 It is beyond anything of reason. And that's also why the conventional people have such a hard time with really focusing on the bigger picture, because you can't diagnose an emotion. Now, you can't put a person in a machine and say, Oh, you had trauma when you were seven years old, because your parents were getting a divorce and blank, blank, blank. In fact, I live my whole life now and I certainly don't think i'll change at 62 to understand the synergy and the complexity of one part of us always connecting to the multiple parts, the probable 10s of 1000s of other chemistries. And there was a quote by Chief Seattle an Indian chief long ago, that I love. And it said, "Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves, all things are bound together, and all things connect." That is such well said from a person, way back in history that knew nothing of the body chemistry and science, but it applies totally to you take something or you do something emotionally or even chemically, there's not one thing that happens. It is like touching a spiderweb. And it reverberates across all parts of it. And that's where conventional medicine doesn't seem to have much appreciation of that. And number six, Brian is imbalanced nutrition. Not unhealthy nutrition. That's different. You know, what I talk to people constantly who I will say are asked, are you eating a healthy diet? Absolutely. I eatvery healthy, and then sometimes I will kind of be suspicious. And I'll say so what did you have for breakfast, lunch and supper yesterday? And they'll go through the list of you know, I had whole grain cereal for breakfast with you know, a type of milk, soy milk or coconut, or almond.And I'll say you so was it unsweetened almond milk now now? It's at about 20 grams of sugar. What kind of cereal? Was it? Well, it has five grams of fiber. But let's see, when I got into it. It was let's see, it was GMO. It had way too many carbohydrates, zero healthy fats. Yeah, it had a little list of vitamins. But big deal. What matters is not the nutritional content. It's what impact does it have on your chemistry. And that story is repeated constantly. So we're going to talk about that that's probably going to be the main focus of the next few minutes, because I'm going to give everyone a very quick summary of if you are walking around, waking up in the mornings and going to bed at night as though you kind of remember your great grandparents doing long ago where they were hobbling or they just you know that would have to stand for 30 seconds before the old hips and knees and things would move. I've got a really good plan for you that I know if you will stick with it, you will see great results to feel better, feel younger, and enjoy life more. In fact, before I get into that, too, that George Orwell had a great statement on pain. He said of pain, you could wish only one thing that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. And in the face of pain, there are no heroes. And the problem is most people with chronic pain are going to get worse. They're not going to get better Brian right because it's like, if I ask you to go drive to Atlanta for me, but I give you a roadmap and it's going the wrong direction is going north instead of south. What do you think you're going to get to Atlanta? You might eventually but it's going to take a lot of backroads and turn around and advice. And that's not what most people are gonna do. They're gonna keep traveling north. Well, the North for most people is more drugs, more drugs and more drugs. And then oh, let's get some hip replacements and knees and all other things because this is the other side effect of drugs. They destroy the cartilage. Hmm. So we got drugs to treat the pain but then it destroys further the cartilage. It's already weakening. And what a great system for more profit. Yay.
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Ed Jones 20:54 Absolutely, Brian, part of this will be of course, my own personal journey over my life. And then also hearing 10s of 1000s of people who have found relief from the fast aging that seems to be happening. You know, I talked about this FTD syndrome that I came up with Father Time Disease, and I spoke about it, I think when I did my podcast on my personal protocol, and all of my supplements and food that I do, because I do take 72 supplements a day. And no one listing here, am I telling you, you need to do that you don't. I'm a self appointed guinea pig. I love what I do. And I am a personal walking experiment. But if you don't take supplements, you're going to just have to just resolve yourself to the same old same old that you see everybody else doing, which is walking around and hobbling and pain and complaining and doctor visits. Sorry, if you don't embrace education, educating yourself with the diet and the supplements, you are probably going to be doomed if you stay in a conventional medical system. So there's my rant on that. And yes, there is great hope. In fact, the acronym that I use for chronic pain is SEND basically send pain away. And what it stands for is sleep again, go back to my podcast, listen to the sleep thing. Second emotions, we've already spoke on that. But this next two N for nutrition, and D for diet, those are the ones I'm going to focus on in the next few minutes. And I will assure you, I will try to make this easy. And if you will embrace this plan, and hopefully have someone to help you if you're not, you know, used to the shopping for nutritional supplements and foods. But it is not that difficult people. Here we go. As far as the number one thing is, and I'm going to make it as easy and quick explanation as possible that I think will shock some people. There's two things called omega three and omega six. I think we've all heard that. And most people don't, of course understand the science behind it. But there's a chemical in your body called arachidonic acid. What that is, is basically fuel that promotes pain. Arachidonic acid, if you have too much, you're going to be sending a lot of pain signals down these pathways. What is the fuel for that? Omega six. when they look back in cultures of people who were extremely healthy, they consumed modest amounts of omega six and good amounts of omega three because omega three actually displaces or pushes aside omega sixes. So the two things you have to do is you have to eat a diet that is not overburdening your system with omega six and you also have to consume omega three in supplements.
Brian Strickland 24:05 Okay, so what types of food are we talking about for omega sixes?
Ed Jones 24:08 Well, the big shocker Brian is this. The very first thing is poultry. Do you know that chicken has more omega six than beef? Generally.
Brian Strickland 24:18 Oh, wow.
Ed Jones 24:19 Yes. The beef could have a lot if it's been totally grazed the wrong way with too many grains. But generally beef has less omega six so we're all kind of in this country. Oh chickens the healthy one. Well is not really when it comes to this it's really better to eat beef or even if you're on a plant based diet, just supplement with omega three.
Brian Strickland 24:43 Now is that true of basically all poultry and does the way it's raised or where it's sourced from have anything to do with that?
Ed Jones 24:51 The chickens themselves tend to accumulate omega six quicker than beef. Now there are eggs because eggs is number two on my list. Gotcha there. Are eggs that are raised to increase omega threes, there'll be bragging about it on the box. So if you're cooking at home, at least get the omega three eggs. Next and here's where a lot of the health food purist kind of confused themselves and they think they've got all the answers when maybe they don't. Nuts. Nuts, I don't care if they're organic, and they were just picked off the tree. If you eat way too many nuts, your omega six are gonna skyrocket. What does that mean? You're going to put fuel on the fire for any inflammatory issues, which then means more pain, sesame seeds, extremely high omega six. Oh, here's one that almost no one eats cereals, duh. Almost the whole country every morning. Most cereals omega six is the only fat that's in it. Whole grain breads. Guess what Brian why bread didn't have as much whole grain. So let's help food people I'm going to get the one that you know has four grams of fiber and all these nuts and grains. It is more omega six in it. Now I'm not saying don't eat it. It's all about the balance between omega three and six. Flax seeds. Wow, they ultimate health food. Flax seeds as all omega six. Flax oil, omega six, you have to be very cautious of not using too much. And then there's many more. But the last one which is really epidemic in this country ubiquitous is vegetable oils, expecially, corn oil and safflower oil. Well guess what? Most every restaurant is only using corn oil because it's cheap. And I spoke about the GMO issue back in the earlier podcast. Glyphosate is horrendous for our health and corn is the number one food that is glyphosate bound. So we've got all these foods, many of which are health foods. So what do we do? Well, when they looked at people who live and are still live in some tribes around the world that was totally healthy, their ratio between omega three and omega six is about one to one, or one to two, maybe you know, one part will make it three, two parts omega six. Guess what the average American ratio is? One to 20. So the 20 is the Omega six. No wonder if we're feeding our body that much chemical that produces the fire of inflammation that we are walking around with pain?
Brian Strickland 27:33 Yeah, and I'm sure french fries aren't helping that ratio any.
Ed Jones 27:36 No that one's totally healthy, that and donuts those are powerful of omega three. Yeah, that couldn't be any worse than to two foes. The worst ever is french fries and donuts. So what we have to do, I'm going to the supplements. Now we have to consume omega three in supplement form. Anyone listening who says, oh, I can get it from a diet, all I can tell you is people, I've looked at probably 1000 blood tests where we do something called the Omega Check. Omega check is the only test I can tell you if your diet is supplying it because your body may not be picking it up as readily as as your next door neighbor. Well, when I looked at it, only two human beings out of all of those ever had the optimal omega three levels, who did not supplement. And one was a lady from Norway, who lived in this country. And the other was a older bodybuilder. Well, both of them were doing the same exact thing as food. They were eating one entire can of sardines, the very high priced ones that were packed in olive oil every day. I'm not doing that. I don't know about you. I don't particularly like them. Even if I did, I'm not going to rely on that one can every single day.
Brian Strickland 28:51 Yeah, that's that's commitment at its best for sure.
Ed Jones 28:53 At its best. And it's a rare thing. Okay, so omega three, what you want is a brand that has been tested for purity. Do not let some dinky ad telling you is pure, you need to know the details. But there are certifications now and there's just look for the lab tests that show they've been tested for heavy metals, because that will destroy your health quicker than almost anything. And the dose you need to get is again ignore the bottle, what you want is 2000 milligrams of EPA DHA. Those are the two active ingredients, they will be found on the back of the bottle. So 2000 milligrams of omega three every single day is going to help displace that omega six.
Brian Strickland 29:35 And there are some products out there that you can do that in two pills a day just so people know.
Ed Jones 29:40 Good point because that wasn't the case in the old days you had to do many like there's brands that you would have to do nine capsules a day to get 2000 but now there's wonderful companies that have done it the right way. So we covered their omega three very well. You do need to lower those foods that have omega six in them. So don't be relying on a lot of nuts and make sure the corn oil is minimized. actually try to eat less meats of any kind if you feel comfortable, but if you're going to eat it, hey, I'm eating red meat three times a week now. And there were years that I would be one time a month because, oh, well, red meats not very healthy. Well, if it's raised, right, as far healthier than these chickens any day of the week. So number two, one is omega three, number two, supplement: Joint support combination. What do I mean by that? We've all heard the glucosamine type of products. I don't think there's a bad product being sold. But there certainly are more effective ones than others. But why do we want that? Glucosamine helps put moisture back in the cartilage. You know what? Anything that's dried out, you can touch it, feel it, squeeze it, and you can hear a crackling. And obviously, if things had to move on that you can tell there would be a lot of friction. Friction creates pain. So if your knees and your hips and your elbows and shoulders tend to be drying out, which will happen with age especially, you need to get them moisturize and that's not going to happen just from drinking water. You have to put a molecule in there that can help that. Glucosamine, Chondroitin and MSM, and usually the recommended dose is perfectly fine. So I would recommend that that just by itself will not give you a lot of relief unless you do these other tips that I'm talking about.
Brian Strickland 31:31 Just if I could interject real quick, what about hyaluronic acid? Could that be helpful?
Ed Jones 31:34 You know, this, the studies on hyaluronic look good. And in some people hyaluronic works and in some people it doesn't. It's worth attempting. Hyaluronic is what's in our cells. When we're really young. Like when I went to see my new grandson yesterday, he's got a crapload of hyaluronic that's why he will not have a wrinkle for about 30 years and his skin so pliable and they can you know move joints ever direction and never have pain is because they have so much hyaluronic. But we're not so sure that supplementing it can actually raise it in the joints there. There actually is a pharmaceutical version that is injected in the knee things called sinkvic, and it's three injections, and sometimes that works. But um, I've taken it and sometimes I think it's helping sometimes not. I don't put it in my core protocol for people because I don't want to overburden people. So omega threes and a good brand of joint support. Now we're going to get into what we call the direct anti inflammatories. And we've all heard of curcumin. Well curcumin by itself is wonderful. Again, we want to put this web together have multiple avenues to help reduce inflammation. Curcumin helps to reduce something called Cox-2. That is one of the what we call prostaglandins that is a hormone like substance that sends messages. Well, when we take curcumin it lowers the prostaglandins that are sending pain messages. And it has so many health benefits. I just really consider it almost like more important than any multivitamin or anything else to be doing curcumin at least twice a day. I do have to give a plug to a company named Terry Naturally. They have a product called Curamin pain relief, safe, effective non addictive pain relief right on the front of the box. And I have seen it work wonders because I want everyone to know this. Just because something has tumeric which is the herb that curcumin comes from or you buy a bottle that says curcumin does not mean that it will work. It isn't like the what I said about glucosamine. Glucosamine you can't get a probably a bad brand you can get plenty of totally ineffective curcumin and this is the reason. That particular molecule has to be altered or processed or combined with fat for it to actually get into your cells. When you look at that culture of India country. They have of course a tons of curry which has curcumin in it, but the reason it works for those people because they don't supplement it's because they cook it with ghee. What is gay, it's an Indian butter. So all of it that they cook is made processed with fat. In fact, the story is in India when they do autopsies on the Indian people, they actually their brains are slightly yellow just like the color of the herb itself that shows how effective it is to for absorption if it can get to the brain. It is being absorbed well. So curcumin daily twice a day. Next one very few people have heard of this one boswellia. It's also known as Frankincense but in the supplement form, it's called boswellia. And the reason I'm throwing this in to do omega three joint support and then curcumin, but adding boswellia in on curcumin stops Cox-2 is a Cox-2 inhibitor, which is part of the pain process. But there's another pain pathway called five locks as five liposuctionigenas, that's the other road that's going to get you down to the pain center. And we need to address both of those. So curcumin does not address a five locks boswellia and doesn't address a Cox-2very well. So when you combine a curcumin and boswellia and you have got a vastly reduced inflammatory pathway. And so those are the four core products for long term use for those people who have moderate to a little bit more chronic pain. And this something else stay on the rest of my life, Brian because I don't want to grow old any quicker than I have to now. When I said it's my core product, I also have the secondary level for those people who are perhaps on the level of aggressive pain, they've been on pain medications for a long time, maybe some even opiates, which we know there's an epidemic and it is destroying a huge chunk of this country and is given with smiles on the commercial medical people's faces. So it's just I don't know how they sleep at night sometimes. Now. I guess say again, I don't want to be like always attacking the conventional medical people because in many situations, they are amazing in life saving. They're very wise people and so many are very caring, but they're in a broken system, totally broken system that trains them from a toolbox that is limited and also brainwashes them to continue to recommend drugs when so many other options may be possible. Now this is really ugly, Brian, but you know, my filter is getting gone these days. But you know what the M D stands for these days is more drugs, more drugs. You go to an MD more drugs, and you have to arm yourself against that in most cases unless you're finding some of these new wonderful individuals who has wisdom about healing not treating symptoms. Okay. So we've covered the core protocol, the Omega, the joint support, curcumin, boswellia and working on the diet. You know, if you listen to my podcast on keto, I do believe I lean toward a keto lifestyle. I'm not in ketosis people you don't have to be but please lean into it because excess carbs are going to feed the inflammatory cycle. You can listen to my podcast on keto, and that will address the foods that you need to do but keep in mind the ones we listed earlier, the poultry, the eggs and nuts, the cereals, the whole grains, the vegetable oils, and flax and others, you've got to reduce those. No conversation on pain would be complete Brian unless we covered CBD. What is CBD Of course it's from hemp. It is not marijuana, but it is the there's a secondary component of that plan. So you have THC and CBD. CBD is very well researched these days to help multiple levels of health. And chronic pain is one of those and also chronic insomnia. And also chronic anxiety. Those are the three big ones that people use this for. And it actually does work if, again, you get the right brand and determine the right dosing of it. So I use an eyedropper twice a day of CBD. There is a new company that's going to be on the website called theCBDguide.org. That will be rating and reviewing all of the 2000 brands that are out there because let the buyer beware. That's all I can say.
Brian Strickland 38:51 Yeah, I think that product more than any, it's really important to know what you're buying. I mean, there's a lot of garbage out there that's completely ineffective and will most likely be detrimental to your health more than actually help.
Ed Jones 39:02 That's a great point because hemp concentrates to things mold and heavy metals, almost other plants they don't do that except a little bit but hemp loves to suck and lead and mold and if this not tested, do not use that in my opinion. So CBD needs to be considered on a regular basis or on the hard days. If you're feeling good some days and not the others just keep it and use the dose three times a day on the days you're struggling. I've done that before. Now the next product everyone's heard about that cost you about three bucks called apple cider vinegar. Why do I recommend that? It's because we have this thing called acid alkaline balance in the body and if you're really acidic, pain loves acidity. Acidity loves pain, and apple cider vinegar is odd compound because it helps your body to not be as acidic and yes it tastes terrible. I do endorse Braggs, number one. And they actually make a flavored version as found in refrigerators that use much easier to drink but twice a day, or at least once a day of Braggs would be a very good consideration for many things. Now, the amount to end it here, but the last two, I mean, last three, I will almost bet that not one single person listening has ever heard of them. One is a product that I just use the initials PEA. And it's been very well researched, because I got a sample of this from one of the companies. And it's a chewable pill. And I will mention the name because they're the only company I know making it Life Extension, love the company, very scientific and from A to Z. And what it does is it lowers the sensation of pain in the brain. So even if you have pain on a scale of one to 10 as a seven, your brain is going to feel it at about a four. Let's pretty cool because it's not doing any damage whatsoever. And when I did this, I did it with total skepticism. And I chewed one pill twice a day and the one chronic pain I've had his Achilles tendon from jumping rope like a crazy man for so long. And about a month into it. I was like one day I was walking around and I didn't have this pain. It was the first time in two years or three, that this pain had gone to zero. And as long as I'm using this, I continue to have less of that Achilles tendon pain. So PEA by Life Extension is the product. The next one is called SPM active. Again, I will mention the brand Metagenics because they're one of the few people who do that. And it is called specialized pro resolving mediators. It is so freakin cool because it's working on a different pathway of pain. Very expensive this stuff is and if you want to learn about SPM, just google Metagenics and SPM. And there's a cool five minute video that explains how this works almost like a fire extinguisher for chronic pain. And I have recommended to many clients. In fact, I had one Brian real quickly I know we're going to finish up here and she was so nervous because she had a chance of a lifetime to go to Italy. It was about two and a half months down the road. And she had been suffering from chronic pain for about five years back pain and was disabling at times and other times not. She was on modest only modest amounts of drugs because she feared the drug cycle so much. And so she suffered a lot. Well, I put her on six of these a day. And within about four weeks it dropped so significantly, she just came in and hugged my neck and said, I will make this trip to Italy and she did and had a wonderful time and continues to do well because of spms and a few other things not just that by itself. And then lastly, there's a machine called a BEMER and it is a pulsed electromagnetic field. I do use a Beamer five days of week. It's just a electronic kind of wave machine that you lie down on a pad and what it's doing is increasing circulation like three fold in eight minutes. I have seen wonderful results actually make one for horses, and anytime a horse is injured or is hobbling or needs help the Beemer machine for horse work so of is working on animals, we know it's not placebo, and we'll have a link for more information on the BEMER machine because I just love that one to death. Thank you for tuning in. And please subscribe if you haven't and recommend that to your friends because I really look at subscribing like tipping after a great meal and I appreciate that subscribe. And remember, as always say if a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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