How does your diet affect your pain? The foods you eat can determine whether your body heals or hurts.
Summary:
Diet can be the difference between putting your body in a healing condition or a harming condition. Every time you eat you change your body chemistry to either be more inflamed or less inflamed.
Chronic diseases can make pain conditions worse. This includes diseases like diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
Eating properly ensures you get the micronutrients your body needs to make energy and repair muscles and tissues. Vitamin C, magnesium and sulphur help to make collagen, which are important for the first stage in healing for many conditions.
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Transcription: How does your diet affect your pain?
Dr. Heather Tick: People often ask me, how does diet work? Every single time you eat, you change your body chemistry. You either make it more inflamed or less inflamed and that makes a huge difference on whether or not your body heals, is sore and achy; and whether or not you end up developing chronic diseases in the long run. Many of the chronic diseases that people get, like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, all of these things can actually make pain conditions worse.
So let’s go back to some of the things that diet does for us. When we’re eating properly, we’re getting not only enough calories but we’re also getting enough micronutrients. Those are the vitamins, the minerals, the enzymes. Those are the things that help the machinery in our body do its job. So there are many, many different functions that need those micro nutrients in order to stay healthy, to make energy for our body and to help us heal.
For example, many of our muscles get sore because of small tears and muscles that happened either from an accident or just day to day living. Well, you need to be able to have the proper micronutrients to fix that. Some of the first micronutrients you need are Vitamin C, Magnesium, and something called Sulfur that comes from eggs and from brassica vegetables like brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, and those things are needed to make something called collagen which is a first stage in healing of many, many conditions. So there are many other aspects about healing and diet but the overall message is that it changes your body chemistry and makes it much more likely to be a healing environment instead of a harming environment.
