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Endure The Pain
Just reframing the painful experience as something that is beneficial and can be simply endured, increases the tolerance levels in humans who have been accustomed to popping pills in order to feel better, at the cost of long-term complications.
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The Human Body Is Not A Car
The basic mindset on how to tackle pain, by suppressing it with dangerous opioids or pain-killers is like treating a human body like a piece of machinery: Finding the broken part and fixing or replacing it.
The approach fails to understand how integrated the human body is, and com...
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Pain: A Complex Phenomenon
- We all have experienced pain, be it physical or psychological.
- Trying to quantify or define the intensity of the hurt being experienced isn’t easy.
- Pain is relative, as each of us has a different anatomical and neurochemical build, a different context that makes it unique...
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Suppressing Pain Is Wrong
Most drugs and over-the-counter analgesics only suppress pain, and we think that’s normal as we are brought up believing that pain is wrong and we have to feel good at all times.
Research in the 1980s showed that Americans are having more options to treat their problems and yet are hav...
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Powdered Nutrients: The Facts
- Most pills are a combination of vitamins and minerals, along with omega-3 fatty acids.
- Scientific studies show the natural forms (like fish in case of omega-3 fatty acids) contain the real benefits, and popping su...
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