#278 How food can improve back pain and daily habits that add up with Dr Rupy Aujla
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this quarterly review episode with Sakina, science writer & researcher at Doctor’s Kitchen. Every quarter, we pull together insights from recent expert-packed podcasts into one episode - to make it easier to take action.
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Today, we dive into pain, which affects so many of us – whether it’s back pain, joint pain, headaches, IBS or chronic conditions like fibromyalgia and endometriosis. Even menstrual pain, often brushed off as “normal”, can significantly disrupt daily life. This episode is all about giving you tools and ideas to feel better.
We cover:
- Invisible pain: Why it’s not just in your head and what you can do about it
- Anti-inflammatory foods: Easy swaps to ease pain & what to keep in your kitchen
- Daily wins: How small habits, like a 30-minute walk, can make a big difference
- Beyond willpower: Why healthy eating isn’t just about personal choices and how changes in our food system could make it easier for everyone to eat well
If you want to dive deeper into the full episodes:
- #276 How the immune system, nutrition and mindset affect pain with Prof. Dr Deepak Ravindran
- #271 Why Prescribing Food Could Fix the Healthcare Crisis with Jonathan Pauling
Papers we referenced:
- Chronic pain prevalence: Zimmer et al., Pain. 2022
- Nociplastic pain: Fitzcharles et al., The Lancet. 2021
- Anti-inflammatory diets and pain: Field et al., Pain Medicine. 2021
- WalkBack study: Pocovi et al., The Lancet. 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Doctor's Kitchen |
| 0:01.1 | Recipes, Health, Lifestyle |
| 0:04.6 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. |
| 0:22.5 | I'm a medical doctor. |
| 0:23.6 | I study nutrition. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm a firm believer in the power of food |
| 0:27.4 | and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:31.6 | Join me and my expert guests |
| 0:33.7 | where we discuss the multiple determinants |
| 0:36.2 | of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, it's Dr. Rupi and welcome to another quarterly review episode. These are episodes that we do |
| 0:52.2 | every quarter and we pull together insights from recent |
| 0:55.8 | expert packed podcasts into one to make it easier to take action. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm with Sakina, science writer and researcher at Doctor's Kitchen today. |
| 1:05.1 | And if you have some suggestions of things that you want us to do on either solo episode |
| 1:09.6 | podcasts or trying to source experts to |
| 1:12.8 | discuss a particular topic, you can tell us what you think of the pod and ask questions |
| 1:17.6 | by clicking on the caption link in your podcast player right now. Today, we're going to dive |
| 1:23.7 | into pain, which affects so many of us, whether it's back pain, joint pain, |
| 1:29.4 | headaches, IBS, or chronic conditions like fibromyalgia and endometriosis. Even menstrual |
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