Your new post is loading...
Pain and unhealthy levels of inflammation are fast becoming default bodily states in the industrialized world.
While in most cases we can adjust the underlying pro-inflammatory conditions by altering our diet, and reducing stress and environmental chemical exposures, these approaches take time, discipline and energy, and sometimes we just want the pain to stop now. In those often compulsive moments we find ourselves popping an over-the-counter pill to kill the pain.
The problem with this approach is that, if we do it often enough, we may kill ourselves along with the pain...
The alternative would seem to be to find out what kind of pain you're dealing with, what it is caused by, and handle that. Pain is a signal. You don't kill the signal, you find out what it is trying to tell you...