Pain Relief Foods: Eat This To Feel Better | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Common foods can act like nature's Tylenol. For example, ginger has been shown to relieve headaches while coffee has similar benefits.
Discover what to eat when you have a migraines, back pains, arthritis, or cramps as Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.
Dr. Barnard is a leading nutrition researcher and multiple-time best-selling author whose works include Foods That Fight Pain.
In This Episode
- What foods help headaches?
- What foods help with cramping?
- What foods help with arthritis?
- What foods help with back pain?
- What foods help with fibromyalgia?
- What foods help with post-workout soreness?
- Does sugar increase sensitivity to pain?
- And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.6 | When it comes to foods that fight pain, is it fair to say that some of them truly can |
| 0:09.1 | be like nature's Tylenol? |
| 0:10.7 | Or even better. |
| 0:11.8 | What foods might we want to turn to when our head starts pounding Dr. Barnard? |
| 0:17.3 | You brew some really serious, strong coffee and drink it down. And for a lot of people, |
| 0:23.5 | that knocks out their headache. And caffeine is a potentiator of painkillers and has some |
| 0:29.5 | pain killing effect on its own. Some people have also used ginger. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:48.9 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:56.0 | Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Indianapolis, Indiana, Montgomery, Alabama, and Lester, England. |
| 1:00.3 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:05.6 | This is episode 96 of Season 7, number 595 overall. And today is all about finding pain relief, because we are going to be looking at every day common foods |
| 1:13.7 | that act like nature's Tylenol. So what will help with a headache? And what about cramps or an |
| 1:20.8 | achy back or what about unrelenting arthritis pain? Well, we are going to be getting into all |
| 1:27.4 | of that today with our |
| 1:28.5 | friend. He is a longtime nutrition researcher whose book, Foods That Fight Pain, is still on the |
| 1:34.6 | shelves of countless homes around the world. Dr. Neil Barnard is back today as we explore |
| 1:41.0 | natural pain relief compounds found in food. |
| 1:44.8 | He joined me this week on the exam room live, |
| 1:47.6 | and we got into a ton of questions from the exam room. |
| 1:50.1 | He's who are watching us on YouTube and Facebook as well. |
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