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Speaker 3: Yes it is, and it is my privilege, my honor
Speaker 3: to be with you today because long ago I answered
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Speaker 3: help and assistance to people who are not feeling well,
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Speaker 3: you to become your own best doctor most of the time.
Speaker 3: And you can do that with gaining knowledge and information
Speaker 3: about your own health and taking better care of yourself
Speaker 3: when applicable, when necessary, and it's necessary all the time.
Speaker 3: Coming up a little bit later in the hour, we
Speaker 3: have this week's installments of the Health Alternative of the Week,
Speaker 3: the Health Outrage of the Week.
Speaker 4: We've got a product recall to tell.
Speaker 3: You about you definitely don't want to miss out on that,
Speaker 3: and the Health Mystery of the Week. All that straight ahead,
Speaker 3: and then we're going to try to take more phone
Speaker 3: calls and questions on the topic of health. But we
Speaker 3: begin this hour with a very important topic and I
Speaker 3: think everybody can relate to, and that is pain. Pain
Speaker 3: is a four letter word that nobody wants. However, our
Speaker 3: creator wanted us to have. It's our alarm system. Pain
Speaker 3: is our best friend. And I know that sounds bad,
Speaker 3: especially if you're in pain right now and you don't
Speaker 3: want to be because it's uncomfortable and it messes with
Speaker 3: your quality of life, but it is important.
Speaker 4: It is an idiot light, if you will.
Speaker 3: Just like on your automobile dash, the electronics are saying, hey,
Speaker 3: you're low and oil, get into the garage and get
Speaker 3: it fixed, or blow up the engine, or you're low
Speaker 3: in water, or your tire is low. You may blow
Speaker 3: a tire at high speed. You don't want that, so
Speaker 3: you get the alarm. That's a blessing in disguise, and
Speaker 3: pain is no different than that. But you got to
Speaker 3: find out why the pain is there. And unfortunately, one
Speaker 3: in three Americans are living in chronic pain. That is
Speaker 3: so sad, and much of it is not necessary. One
Speaker 3: of the first things I remind reminded my patients of
Speaker 3: with respect to pain is that pain is a biological
Speaker 3: process that is critical to life. Nobody wants pain, unless
Speaker 3: you consider yourself a massacrest, of course, but pain protects
Speaker 3: our bodies from injury. And by reminding us that tissue
Speaker 3: is damaged or being damaged or needs to be protected.
Speaker 3: It also pain aids in the repairing process to injuries
Speaker 3: that we acquire, and we do have injuries throughout our lives.
Speaker 3: It's hard to think of pain as your friend, but
Speaker 3: it can have an important life saving purpose.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 3: Our pain sensory system is designed for serveval. Thus, the
Speaker 3: goal of pain, the pain system that we humans experience,
Speaker 3: is to get us out of harm's way by ramping
Speaker 3: up the intensity and unpleasantness of the pain signal, the
Speaker 3: sensation of pain.
Speaker 4: If we didn't have.
Speaker 3: It, we would absolutely have early dem eyes.
Speaker 4: We would just deteriorate.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies who make painkilling drugs want you to
Speaker 3: believe that you have pain, you are deficient in a
Speaker 3: drug that they sell. That's what they want you to believe.
Speaker 3: They want you to believe that the answer to all pain,
Speaker 3: all the time is to take their nostrums, their drugs
Speaker 3: and stay on them for a lifetime.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm here to.
Speaker 3: Tell you, and other doctors will tell you if they're honest,
Speaker 3: that painkillers are not supposed to be taken on a regular,
Speaker 3: ongoing basis unless there's extraordinary circumstances, which sometimes there are.
Speaker 3: But painkillers, like many drugs, really are designed to be
Speaker 3: a bridge, a short bridge to helping your body to
Speaker 3: sleep and rest and not be so stressed and not
Speaker 3: be so uncomfortable until your body can manage to clean
Speaker 3: up up whatever the damage and injury was that caused
Speaker 3: the pain. Not to completely swallow drugs every single day
Speaker 3: for the rest of your life, because these drugs are very,
Speaker 3: very harmful when taken long term. I don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3: Painkillers are important when they're used judiciously for acute pain,
Speaker 3: for such things as let's say, you know, a toothache,
Speaker 3: fractured bone, surgical procedures, somebody's got a severe migraine and
Speaker 3: they bring on the drugs. I get it, And for
Speaker 3: that they can be miracles. Really, so somebody can sleep
Speaker 3: if they're something's banging away with pain.
Speaker 4: No good.
Speaker 3: But chronic ingestion of painkillers is a recipe to disaster
Speaker 3: on many levels. And so when we're having pain that
Speaker 3: is chronic that keeps going, we should ask the question,
Speaker 3: why am I in pain this long? And what can
Speaker 3: I do to resolve it so that I don't have
Speaker 3: to stay on these painkillers, and most people want that.
Speaker 3: Most people don't want to take painkillers, but they're forced
Speaker 3: into it because the reason for their pain is not
Speaker 3: being addressed. And many times that reason could be addressed
Speaker 3: and could be managed and solved the problem, therefore not
Speaker 3: needing to give or take painkillers. Pain manifests in many ways,
Speaker 3: and a recent survey has revealed that almost a third
Speaker 3: of Americans are experiencing persistent pain ongoing paint and according
Speaker 3: to the poll, three out of ten Americans report not
Speaker 3: having a single pain free day in over a month.
Speaker 3: How sad is that, with twenty eight percent indicating they
Speaker 3: endure pain some form of pain on a daily basis.
Speaker 3: I cannot even rely to that, but I know it happens,
Speaker 3: and it's sad. A recent survey of two thousand Americans
Speaker 3: found that nearly half experienced chronic pain, regardless of whether
Speaker 3: the pain is medically diagnosed or not. Over a quarter
Speaker 3: of those dealing with chronic pain have endured it for
Speaker 3: get this thirteen years or longer. I can't even imagine
Speaker 3: those poor people. The typical American starts experiencing discomfort at
Speaker 3: the age of thirty seven. Predominantly individuals reported experiencing pain
Speaker 3: in their legs thirty nine percent, in their neck twenty
Speaker 3: nine percent, their shoulders twenty nine percent. Others highlighted their back,
Speaker 3: and usually that's the lower back as the primary daily
Speaker 3: challenge when it comes to pain or experiencing pain on
Speaker 3: average when waking when waking up, a lot of people
Speaker 3: experience pain upon getting up just in the morning, just
Speaker 3: the sheer activ it and Americans require an additional seven
Speaker 3: minutes to prepare themselves in the morning because they're in pain.
Speaker 3: Seeking relief for chronic pain, respondents primarily consult healthcare professionals
Speaker 3: seventy five percent, with nearly half resorting to simply looking
Speaker 3: up their symptoms with doctor Google, doing a Google search,
Speaker 3: doing a search engine, and they're looking at their symptoms
Speaker 3: forty eight percent of the time.
Speaker 4: So there is just a.
Speaker 3: Tremendous amount of suffering that goes on here in the
Speaker 3: US with people who are in pain, and I dare
Speaker 3: say a lot of them are in pain unnecessarily and
Speaker 3: their problems have just not been resolved. The chronic pain
Speaker 3: caused respondence to feel dissatisfied with their lives. Forty three
Speaker 3: percent said they were not feeling entirely themselves, thirty percent
Speaker 3: had increased fatigue, twenty eight percent had consistent sleep disturbances
Speaker 3: due to their pain, and twenty seven percent had to
Speaker 3: give up on beloved activities that they love to do
Speaker 3: and can't do because of pain, which messes you up
Speaker 3: and destroys your quality of life.
Speaker 4: We've got to do something about it. We've got to
Speaker 4: get into this.
Speaker 3: We've got to find ways to help people in pain
Speaker 3: and not just keep feeding them drugs to cover it
Speaker 3: up or mask the problem.
Speaker 4: Getting to the causes, we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere, but first we'll have the health Alternative
Speaker 3: of the Week that's coming up. You're tuned into the
Speaker 3: Doctor Bob Martinshell.
Speaker 4: I was told when I get to almahesers drink. But
Speaker 4: now I'm insecure and I care what people think. NAMES
Speaker 4: care what do you think?
Speaker 2: Wish we could time back time to the good no
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Speaker 3: And I welcome you or welcome you back to this
Speaker 3: hour of the Doctor Bob Martson Show.
Speaker 4: All right, we will get back to.
Speaker 3: The conversation that I started out talking about this hour,
Speaker 3: about the fact that nearly one out of three Americans
Speaker 3: are living in chronic pain and the why behind that
Speaker 3: and what to do potentially about it besides taking risky
Speaker 3: pharmaceutical drugs like painkillers.
Speaker 4: You know, God.
Speaker 3: Blessed that we have them, that they were invented so
Speaker 3: that when we're in pain we can at least get
Speaker 3: some respists, some degree of relief.
Speaker 4: But man, they are so overused.
Speaker 3: And I'll address that further as we go through this hour,
Speaker 3: But first I want to provide for you this week's
Speaker 3: installment of the Health Alternative of the Week.
Speaker 4: All right, the Health Alternative of the Week. Here we go.
Speaker 3: For the love of organic let us, that's the title
Speaker 3: of it. Did you know that in August twenty fifteen
Speaker 3: was the first time a vegetable was successfully grown in
Speaker 3: outer space and enjoyed by NASA astronauts on the International
Speaker 3: Space Station. It's true, twenty fifteen, that's when it happened.
Speaker 3: Amazing researchers analyzed the red Romaine lettuce crops from twenty
Speaker 3: fourteen to twenty sixteen and determined that let us grown
Speaker 3: in space is not only safe for astronauts to eat,
Speaker 3: it's also free of disease causing microbes and as nutritious
Speaker 3: as lettuce grown on Earth. Since then, a multitude of
Speaker 3: greens has been grown on.
Speaker 4: The space station.
Speaker 3: It's no longer it's it's no wonder astronauts chose to
Speaker 3: grow lettuce in space. There's just something face it special,
Speaker 3: something about a salad that makes your body come alive
Speaker 3: with nourishment. I mean, if I'm missing salad more than
Speaker 3: a day, I'm.
Speaker 4: Going, where's my salad. Let's get to the salad.
Speaker 3: I My body knows and your probably does do innately,
Speaker 3: that we need more live food, hopefully organic whenever possible,
Speaker 3: and salads do the trick. Lettuce is rich in vitamins A,
Speaker 3: vitamin C, vitamin K, folet acid, and minerals such as
Speaker 3: iron and magnesium. However, only only organic lettuce boasts all
Speaker 3: of these benefits and contains even higher amounts of vitamin
Speaker 3: C than conventional pesticide laden lettuce or vegetables you're going
Speaker 3: to find in the prototypical grocery store. Now, when you
Speaker 3: have lettuce like organic lettuce in your diet, fresh and
Speaker 3: drizzled with extra virgin olive oil, this homegrown lettuce gives
Speaker 3: astronauts a dose of much needed vitamins and minerals while.
Speaker 4: Orbiting the Earth.
Speaker 3: To sort of fight against free radical formation which is
Speaker 3: happening in space. With a nutrient dense profile. Lettuce, and
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about iceberg lettuce. Avoid that there's no
Speaker 3: nutrition there. I'm not talking about iceberg lettuce. I'm talking
Speaker 3: about romaine lettuce and all kinds of different lettuces. Stay
Speaker 3: away from head lettuce or iceberg lettuce. It is nutrition devoid.
Speaker 3: That's why it's white. That's why you can see through it.
Speaker 3: You want green, baby and dark rich colors. That's where
Speaker 3: all the phito nutrients are. That's where all the antioxidants are,
Speaker 3: That's where all the health and well being are. That's
Speaker 3: the healthier alternative for you. That's why we're calling it
Speaker 3: the health alternative of the week. Love of organic lettuce.
Speaker 3: You can incorporate these into your diet. Whether we're on Earth,
Speaker 3: earthbound or space bound, it doesn't matter. Just be sure
Speaker 3: to make them organic whenever possible. You'll get more bang
Speaker 3: for the buck romaine, green red leaf, butter arugula, but
Speaker 3: not iceberg.
Speaker 4: Well. Iceberg is the last choice. If you have to
Speaker 4: have some.
Speaker 3: There are many crisp and delicious varieties to bite into,
Speaker 3: find the one you like and exploit it. Remember my words.
Speaker 3: The darker colored lettuces contain higher concentrations of nutrients, particularly antioxidants.
Speaker 3: You want the darkest lettuce you can find, and the
Speaker 3: more you eat of that, the healthier you're going to be.
Speaker 3: Choose organic lettuce too, of course, for any variety of
Speaker 3: leavy greens to get the most out of every bite.
Speaker 3: Conveniently grown lettuces and conventionally grown lettuces, I should say,
Speaker 3: conventionally grown lettuces are sprayed with a variety of toxic pesticides, herbicides,
Speaker 3: and fungicides. You don't want to feed that to yourself
Speaker 3: or your family, because there's been many articles written about
Speaker 3: how these are cancer producing long term. Oh, they won't
Speaker 3: knock you down the day you woof down some lettuce
Speaker 3: that is, you know, incorporated with insecticides and herbicides and fungicides.
Speaker 3: And if you think you're washing them off when you're
Speaker 3: at home and you've got in the kitchen and you've
Speaker 3: got the faucet on and you're washing, you can't wash
Speaker 3: that stuff off. It is sprayed on it as it's growing,
Speaker 3: and it's incorporated into the lettuce. You can't wash it off.
Speaker 3: Go for organic whenever possible, grow it in your own yard.
Speaker 3: That way, you know what you're getting right. Well, a
Speaker 3: recent study found that regular lettuce absorbs twenty percent of
Speaker 3: the toxic spray as in toxic insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides.
Speaker 3: Who wants raid on their lettuce anyway? It sounds gross
Speaker 3: what a pesticide is absorbed into the plant. This means
Speaker 3: you can't wash it off. It's true. Find an array
Speaker 3: of fresh, delicious organic lettuces at natural grocery stores nationwide.
Speaker 3: Choosing organic ensures a healthier oil for generations to come
Speaker 3: and a healthier you. And you are worth it, Yes,
Speaker 3: you're worth it. And you know you might walk into
Speaker 3: a grocery, you know, a grocery store of any sort
Speaker 3: that sells organic foods and organic produce, and to the
Speaker 3: naked eye, it may not look as healthy because sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, those vegetables and the fruits that you see
Speaker 3: in the prototypical grocery store, they've got plasticizors and all
Speaker 3: kinds of agents on them to make them look shiny,
Speaker 3: to make them pleat eye candy to you, and so
Speaker 3: that when you see them, you go, oh, look at that.
Speaker 3: I can almost see my face in that bell pepper
Speaker 3: it's like a mirror image. Well, it's coated with it's
Speaker 3: coated with plastic. Why would you want to ingest that?
Speaker 3: And you can't peel it off. So get the organic
Speaker 3: whenever and wherever possible. This week's Health Alt Alternative of
Speaker 3: the Week for the love of organic lettuce. And if
Speaker 3: you're fortunate enough to find an organic provider of foods
Speaker 3: in your area, like natural grocer stores, you're in good shape.
Speaker 3: If you're not, just start asking around. And if you
Speaker 3: can't grow in your own backyard, you can certainly supplement
Speaker 3: it in powder form. You can you can supplement it
Speaker 3: in powder form by finding these powdered, freeze dried vegetables
Speaker 3: in grocery stores as supplements or in health food stores
Speaker 3: as supplements, and you simply take a scoop out of
Speaker 3: there and you put it into the smoothie or your
Speaker 3: favorite drink, whether it's a concentrated green drink or a
Speaker 3: concentrated red drink. We did an hour on that with
Speaker 3: doctor Tony O'Donnell the very first hour of today's show,
Speaker 3: And if you didn't get a chance to hear that,
Speaker 3: go back into the podcast library and listen to it.
Speaker 3: You'll love it. We covered a lot of ground, so yes, eat,
Speaker 3: get more veggies. We need more veggies because they're healthy
Speaker 3: for us and they provide the nutrition we need to
Speaker 3: repair ourselves and to reduce our risk of diseases chronically
Speaker 3: going forward into the future. But you want to make
Speaker 3: sure they're pure and safe for yourself and your family.
Speaker 3: And if you can't find a natural grocery store nearest too,
Speaker 3: you find out where they're at naturalgrocers dot com, natural
Speaker 3: grocers dot com. This week's health alternative of the week
Speaker 3: for the love of organic. Let us all right when
Speaker 3: we come back, we've got the health outrage of the week,
Speaker 3: and then we're going to get back to the conversation
Speaker 3: about pain and how to deal with it and how
Speaker 3: to get out of it. You're tuned into the Doctor
Speaker 3: Bob Martin Show.
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Speaker 4: She's like, you don't believe it. Come on each time
Speaker 4: for the health outrage because it's nothing.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 4: It is outrageous. And this is a pet peeve of mine.
Speaker 3: It has been for well since my first child was born.
Speaker 3: Many many decades ago, and I saw what the typical
Speaker 3: childbirth obstetrical practice in the United States was all about,
Speaker 3: and it was horrifying. Now, granted, there are many excellent
Speaker 3: OBGYN doctors that practice sincerely ethically and are into what
Speaker 3: they're doing for the benefit of their patients, but there
Speaker 3: are a percentage of them that I just wonder.
Speaker 4: How they're able to roll and how they're able.
Speaker 3: To stay in practice because they've got an agenda going on.
Speaker 3: Childbirth hospital errors paralyze a young woman from the waist
Speaker 3: down after nurses left her legs in nerve crushing position
Speaker 3: for seven hours. I need to tell you about this story.
Speaker 3: For most new mothers and fathers, the forty eight hours
Speaker 3: of their newborn baby's life is pure magical. It sure
Speaker 3: was for me with my six children, and I virtually well.
Speaker 3: My wife wouldn't give me credit for delivering them. She says, Honey,
Speaker 3: you caught them. I delivered them. You caught our babies.
Speaker 3: Don't ever take credit for delivering them. I delivered them,
Speaker 3: and I give her credit for them.
Speaker 4: My sweet wife.
Speaker 3: Six children later, and I was so happy to be
Speaker 3: involved in four out of six of them. I was
Speaker 3: with all of them all of them, of course, but
Speaker 3: the first one I was completely ignorant about because I
Speaker 3: was in college at the time. But it worked out,
Speaker 3: but I saw it unfolding going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3: But in this case, this young lady I'm talking about
Speaker 3: here who had her legs nerve crushing position for seven
Speaker 3: hours and paralyzed her name Elizabeth Waggott, thirty six years
Speaker 3: of age. Then was also the time when she was
Speaker 3: told she was facing a lifetime of paralysis following a
Speaker 3: catastrophic childbirth injury that she was unaware had even happened
Speaker 3: at the time. Missus Waggott gave birth to her daughter, Darcy,
Speaker 3: following a seventy two hour labor process. When it was
Speaker 3: to to get up and go to the bathroom, she
Speaker 3: realized she couldn't move everything from her pelvis down felt dead. Elizabeth,
Speaker 3: an artist who lives in Texas, received an epidural injection.
Speaker 3: That's where things start to go wrong. EPI dural injection.
Speaker 3: And oh, yes, doctors push them, nurses push them, everybody
Speaker 3: pushes them. And yes, sometimes they can come in handy
Speaker 3: because some women do benefit and need epidural injections, but
Speaker 3: most do not. But they get pushed hard and heavy,
Speaker 3: and that's where the disaster of birth can start. Well,
Speaker 3: the bad birth process, I should say, starts to unravel
Speaker 3: more than twenty four hours earlier. This Elizabeth Wagott had
Speaker 3: a epidural injection, but doctor said it's numbing effect should
Speaker 3: have worn off by now. By the way, about seventy
Speaker 3: seventy five percent of hospital bursts use epidural injections. A
Speaker 3: steroid drug is injected into the spine of a woman
Speaker 3: in labor to relieve pain, and, as I said, sometimes necessary,
Speaker 3: but I believe in many other experts believe they're pushed
Speaker 3: too much. Why Because it's easy for doctors and easier
Speaker 3: for nurses, and it's profitable for everybody involved. A neurologist
Speaker 3: visited Elizabeth Waggett's bedside and believed she'd likely suffered nerve
Speaker 3: damage as a result of her prolonged stretch and her pelvis,
Speaker 3: and if the feeling hadn't returned yet, there was a
Speaker 3: chance it would never she was told. She said, my
Speaker 3: world collapsed. She told an investigative reporter. I was thinking,
Speaker 3: just like why me, Why has this.
Speaker 4: Happened to me?
Speaker 3: I felt like a failure because I had a new baby,
Speaker 3: and I could get up to go to her.
Speaker 4: I wasn't supposed to be like that. Close quote.
Speaker 3: Two weeks later, test showed her ssiatic nerve, the largest
Speaker 3: nerve in the body that runs down the spine to
Speaker 3: the back of the legs, had sustained severe damage that
Speaker 3: was unlikely to repair. It marked the beginning of a
Speaker 3: two and a half year nightmare, which saw this new
Speaker 3: mother confined to a wheelchair for seven months, unable to
Speaker 3: get up and tend to herself, let alone her baby.
Speaker 4: Missus Wagg had.
Speaker 3: Said, and I quote, my husband had to give up
Speaker 3: his job to take care of me full time. Take
Speaker 3: me to the toilet, help me into the shower, feed
Speaker 3: my I couldn't feed myself as well as looking after
Speaker 3: my baby. Most days, she said, I couldn't move from
Speaker 3: the bed, And all the time I was thinking of
Speaker 3: how much of a failure I was. I thought my
Speaker 3: daughter would be better off without me.
Speaker 4: How sad is that?
Speaker 3: And I remember wishing someone would put me out of
Speaker 3: my misery her words, ladies and gentlemen close quote. Miraculously,
Speaker 3: and against all odds, she did, seven months later regain
Speaker 3: the feeling in her lower extremities, but it came at
Speaker 3: with a cost.
Speaker 4: She said. If someone would have said, do you.
Speaker 3: Know what it's like to have your legs chopped off,
Speaker 3: I'd say yes, because that's.
Speaker 4: What nerve pain feels like. Close quote. For the better
Speaker 4: part of a.
Speaker 3: Year, she slept a little more than thirty minutes a night,
Speaker 3: waking up with these jolts of pain. Today, she relies
Speaker 3: on daily painkillers and weekly physical therapy and has been
Speaker 3: diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder PTSD as a result
Speaker 3: of her post As a result of her birth and
Speaker 3: post birth experience, missus Waggant says, it still feels like
Speaker 3: I have two limbs attached to my body rather than
Speaker 3: my legs. Well, long story short of this, in this
Speaker 3: health outrage is way too many women in the United
Speaker 3: States get into this. They start with these injections and
Speaker 3: then they put them in stirrups and they know they
Speaker 3: spread them out as fast and they immobilize them in
Speaker 3: the bed so they can't move around, so they can't
Speaker 3: get the pelvis moving and the baby moving down the track.
Speaker 3: They move against gravity where their legs up in the air.
Speaker 3: Benefits versus risk, Folks, You've got to get a good
Speaker 3: obstetrician who is honest, hardworking, and there are many of those,
Speaker 3: but unfortunately, there is a certain contingency of obgyns out
Speaker 3: there who are highly risky people to be around that
Speaker 3: are looking at profitability and convenience over your good health.
Speaker 3: Buyer beware, that's the health outrage when it comes to
Speaker 3: obstetrical practices in America.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned. I'm doctor Bob Martin number Well.
Speaker 3: Hopefully natural medicine whenever and wherever possible. That could be
Speaker 3: homeopathic medicine, it could be.
Speaker 4: Just tincture of time.
Speaker 3: It could be the healing touch of a provider who
Speaker 3: provides actually touching their patients. Could be a gosh, a
Speaker 3: nature pathic physician, a homeopathic physician, a chiropractic physician, a
Speaker 3: massage therapist, physical therapist, social work or anything. And I
Speaker 3: welcome you back to the program. We started out the
Speaker 3: hour talking about how nearly one out of three Americans
Speaker 3: are living in chronic pain, and the question becomes why
Speaker 3: when there's a lot of help to be delivered that
Speaker 3: these persons, these people who are in chronic pain don't
Speaker 3: know about people have talked them out of ever ever
Speaker 3: having the confidence to know that they may be able
Speaker 3: to get out of pain if somebody can just find
Speaker 3: the reason for their pain, and so they continue to
Speaker 3: take drugs. These painkilling drugs were really never designed to
Speaker 3: be taken long term. We're glad to have them when
Speaker 3: you have an acute injury. Of course, when you have
Speaker 3: a fall or an accident or broken bone or a
Speaker 3: toothache or something like that, yes, bring on the drugs
Speaker 3: or some other exciting experience. But most of the time
Speaker 3: these drugs were designed to be a bridge, give you
Speaker 3: a chance to just rest and recover, and then get
Speaker 3: off of them as soon as possible because they are toxic.
Speaker 3: They are damaging to your body. Americans are willing to
Speaker 3: sacrifice and spend extraordinary amounts of money to be pain free.
Speaker 3: I get it to be pain free. Those living in
Speaker 3: chronic pain have dedicated to lives their willingness to sacrifice
Speaker 3: some of their favorite indulgences.
Speaker 4: Like if you were to ask somebody who's in.
Speaker 3: Chronic pain, would you be willing to give up coffee
Speaker 3: just to get out of pain? And said yeah, twenty
Speaker 3: five percent of them said yes. Would you be willing
Speaker 3: to give up social media? Twenty two percent said yes.
Speaker 3: No more social.
Speaker 4: Media, just get me out of pain, and.
Speaker 3: Even certain food products like cheese. Eighteen percent of them
Speaker 3: said yes, I'd be willing to give up cheese in
Speaker 3: my diet if I could just get out of pain. Well,
Speaker 3: Americans are also prepared to spend get this. On average,
Speaker 3: somebody who's in pain is prepared to spend one thousand,
Speaker 3: eight hundred dollars for a diagnosis to identify the cause
Speaker 3: of their pain, the cause of their extreme discomfort. That's
Speaker 3: how much it's worth to them. If somebody could just
Speaker 3: diagnose my problem, I would be willing to pay them
Speaker 3: eight hundred dollars. Meanwhile, those living in chronic pain are
Speaker 3: managing their daily discomfort in a variety of ways, including
Speaker 3: using heating pads thirty nine percent, regularly exercising, trying to
Speaker 3: get rid of their pain thirty three percent, and trying
Speaker 3: to trying various supplements twenty five percent. And I guess
Speaker 3: that's nutritional supplements or herbs. For those trying supplements, the
Speaker 3: most popular ones they are using are specifically targeted for pain,
Speaker 3: including iron, which I can understand. Iron should not be
Speaker 3: a supplement that should be given for pain. By the way,
Speaker 3: I do not recommend that, but some people that are
Speaker 3: in pain. Let's say people who have arthritis do really
Speaker 3: well on EPA omega three oils like fish oil. Seventeen
Speaker 3: percent of those people are taking that and herbs. Certain
Speaker 3: herbs like turmeric also known as curry, is more effective,
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, than thaile andol in ibuprofen at easing
Speaker 3: painful arthritis and injuries. It's true, and despite the challenges
Speaker 3: with finding solutions to pain, eighty percent of respondents in
Speaker 3: large surveys said they are continuing to seek solutions, while
Speaker 3: seventy eight percent are indicating their preference for natural solutions
Speaker 3: over surgical intervention. A significant hurdle in tackling and managing
Speaker 3: chronic pain lies in its subjective nature. Let's face it,
Speaker 3: variations in how individuals are different in different demographic groups
Speaker 3: perceive and experience pain make it challenging for healthcare professionals
Speaker 3: to accurately diagnose and treat it. This subjectivity can breed
Speaker 3: skepticism and misunderstandings regarding the severity of a person's pain,
Speaker 3: compounding feelings of anxiety and isolation associated with chronic pain
Speaker 3: because some people honestly think somebody else is faking their
Speaker 3: pain if they have it, because they can't relate to
Speaker 3: it because they're not the ones in pain. And according
Speaker 3: to a study published in the journal of the American
Speaker 3: Medical Association Network Open, the healthcare expenses associated with chronic
Speaker 3: pain in the United States are estimated ready for this
Speaker 3: are estimated to reach as high as six hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty five billion dollars on an annual basis six hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty five billion dollars in pain management in the
Speaker 3: United States on a daily basis, I mean on a
Speaker 3: yearly basis. Studies have often suggested that public health officials,
Speaker 3: policy makers, and healthcare providers must prioritize the development of
Speaker 3: policies and programs aimed at addressing chronic pain. Well, look,
Speaker 3: if somebody's in chronic pain, they need choices, they need options.
Speaker 3: They need to know how to take care of themselves
Speaker 3: using rest and ice and topicals like themSo and arnica,
Speaker 3: embracing and maybe losing some weight.
Speaker 4: They need to.
Speaker 3: Also access doctors who help people in pain, like chiropractors, acupuncturists,
Speaker 3: massage therapists, people who do yoga tai chi. How about
Speaker 3: soft wave therapy? Have you tried that? How about interferential
Speaker 3: therapy or diathermy, how about hyperbaric oxygen therapy or red
Speaker 3: light therapy.
Speaker 4: These are all things that can help pain.
Speaker 3: Naturally drug free or turmeric, ginger, magnesium, vitamin C, try
Speaker 3: some meditation, the tincture of time. There's so many ways
Speaker 3: to help yourself out. You're tuned into the Doctor Bob Martinshell.
Speaker 4: Welcome Queek even.
Speaker 3: Now and I welcome you back or welcome you to
Speaker 3: the final segment of the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
Speaker 4: But before we before we get to the health.
Speaker 3: Mystery, I just wanted to finish up just say one
Speaker 3: last thing about chronic pain.
Speaker 4: If you're in chronic pain and you.
Speaker 3: Want to change up your diet a little bit to
Speaker 3: an anti inflammatory diet and eat certain foods that have
Speaker 3: anti inflammatory properties, you may do so. You may be asking,
Speaker 3: what are those foods, Doctor Bob.
Speaker 4: Well, here they are.
Speaker 3: I'm going to give them off quickly, and if you
Speaker 3: miss this, you can play it back in the podcast
Speaker 3: library if you want. Here we go blackberries, broccoli, avocados, onions, blueberries, tomatoes, ginger, salmon, pineapples, garlic, walnuts,
Speaker 3: Pecaan's almonds, Macedamian nuts, mushrooms, especially medicinal mushrooms, green tea,
Speaker 3: basically all fresh fruits and all vegetables organic, whatever possible.
Speaker 3: So there's a great list of foods you can start
Speaker 3: on to reduce inflammatory load in your body and maybe
Speaker 3: reduce your pain levels. All right, it's time now, ladies
Speaker 3: and gentlemen, for the health mystery of the week. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Bats could hold a secret to long life and other
Speaker 3: health news you may have missed. A protein found in
Speaker 3: bats could have therapeutic potential for humans.
Speaker 4: Study says that bats could.
Speaker 3: Hold the key to fighting inflammatory diseases and aging. In
Speaker 3: a study published, researchers identified a protein carried by bats
Speaker 3: that could explain their long lives and imper perviousness to
Speaker 3: certain viruses with possible therapeutic potential for humans. Bats have
Speaker 3: exceptionally long lifespans for small mammals, with some surviving as
Speaker 3: long as forty years, and they can live with viruses
Speaker 3: that would otherwise be harmful to humans, such as sars
Speaker 3: and ebola and zica. A team of scientists in Singapore
Speaker 3: said this is thanks to a modified version of a
Speaker 3: protein called bat as C two, which suppresses the inflammatory
Speaker 3: response in bats when researchers genetically modified mice to carry
Speaker 3: the protein. The mice demonstrated the same inflammatory defenses as bats.
Speaker 3: Human cells tested in a lab setting became more resilient
Speaker 3: too when they were exposed to this bat protein. A
Speaker 3: doctor Wang, who led the study said this as C
Speaker 3: two protein could hold the key to longevity and reduced
Speaker 3: mortality from viruses in humans as well. And he goes
Speaker 3: on to say, and I quote it may not be
Speaker 3: the only factor, as biology is never as simple one
Speaker 3: molecule or one pathway, but the overall dampening of inflammation
Speaker 3: most likely plays a role in health, aging, healthy aging
Speaker 3: in bats.
Speaker 4: That's what the good doctor said, doctor Wang.
Speaker 3: So as mysterious as it sounds, we are learning from
Speaker 3: studying a protein in bats that there may be down
Speaker 3: the road some therapeuticity in humans. And I know a
Speaker 3: lot of people are going, oh, bats are just such
Speaker 3: a gross animal.
Speaker 4: I would never be well.
Speaker 3: Hey, stay open minded, live long, and prosper.
Speaker 4: As as the saying goes spot that is all right,
Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, thank you. It's the doctor Bob Martinjell