#276 How the immune system, nutrition and mindset affect pain with Prof. Dr Deepak Ravindran
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re diving into how nutrition intersects with the complicated world of pain. Today I have former guest and colleague Prof. Dr Deepak Ravindran to talk to us about how our immune system can impact our perception of pain, the different types of pain patients and how we can do better as medical professionals in the management of chronic pain.
This topic covers IBS, pelvic pain, chronic cystitis, fibromyalgia, migraine, functional gut disorders, long covid and more. Pain cannot be explained by a singular pathway, and I think there is so much we could all learn from Deepak's insights on this topic.
We discuss the different types of pain patients, how the immune system trains our responses to pain, how trauma in childhood can impact our responses to pain and why food plays a pivotal role.
Deepak is Honorary Professor at Teesside University and has worked as an NHS Consultant in Pain management, he’s author of the “Pain Free Mindset” a fantastic book that I recommend to both patients and medical colleagues. His new role is Director of Lifestyle Medicine for a primary care network (PCN) of GP practices in Reading, UK, working upstream to bring these insights early in the chain of pain management.
We talk about the use of fasting, anti-inflammatory diets, the importance of gut supportive diets and key ingredients that could be useful for chronic pain sufferers.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctor's Kitchen |
| 0:01.1 | Recipes, Health, Lifestyle |
| 0:04.6 | Right now, pain is responsible, especially musculoskeletal condition pain, |
| 0:10.9 | which is pain due to arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis. |
| 0:14.7 | It's accountable for almost 5 billion pounds of NHS spent per annum. |
| 0:21.9 | It's accountable for almost 20.8 million work days lost. |
| 0:28.5 | It's the second most common cause of sickness and loss of job and productivity in our economy as it stands. |
| 0:38.2 | And it is the third most common reason for the visits to any kind of primary or secondary |
| 0:45.9 | care setting. |
| 0:47.5 | So we do need to do something about it that is system-wide rather than stacking all the expertise in one corner, which is |
| 0:57.2 | relatively inaccessible, not well-resourced and not well-supported. |
| 1:04.5 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 1:09.5 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 1:17.1 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study nutrition. And I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 1:28.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you |
| 1:34.0 | to lead your best life. |
| 1:41.1 | Today we're diving into how nutrition intersects with the complicated world of pain. |
| 1:47.9 | Today I've got former guest and colleague Deepik Revingrin to talk to us about how our immune |
| 1:53.0 | system can impact our perception of pain and the different types of pain patients. |
| 1:58.8 | And I think when people think of a pain patient, |
| 2:02.3 | they have a stereotypical type of person in mind. But actually, we're going to be talking |
| 2:09.6 | about a range of different topics, including IBS, pelvic pain, chronic cystitis, fibromyalgia, migraine, functional gut disorders, long COVID and more. |
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