Intermittent fasting reduces pain levels
A recent study of sedentary volunteers with chronic low back pain found that intermittent fasting reduces pain. Regardless of whether patients do exercises, intermittent fasting helps with weight loss and breaking the pain cycle. Doing exercises alone without dieting is not enough to break the pain cycle and allow you to be less disabled. To be less disabled from pain, regardless of whether you exercise or not, you need to do intermittent fasting.
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Intermittent fasting reduces pain disability and increases pain tolerance, making you less susceptible to addiction
Intermittent fasting helps with reducing the risk of stroke and inflammation involving the nervous system. New studies in animals now show that fasting at 18 hour intervals can increase your pain tolerance. This means someone doing intermittent fasting will require fewer opioids when they take it for pain. The study also shows that intermittent fasting reduces your risk of becoming addicted to pain medications.
Intermittent fasting helps optimize cognition, brain function and mood
During intermittent fasting, the body has used up the glycogen stores in the liver and starts to break down fat. Ketones are produced that effect metabolic switching. This metabolic switching is good for the brain and nerves and increases their resilience to stress and disease. Studies show mood and cognition improves with regular intermittent fasting. As mood and mental health is closely interlinked with the pain experience, having a healthier brain also reduces pain and helps overcome the chronic pain cycle.
Summary
Intermittent fasting may be challenging and uncomfortable, but practitioners will affirm that it gets easier with time and practice. The benefits of intermittent fasting goes beyond losing weight and reducing risk of heart attack and stroke. Intermittent fasting reduces pain and disability. It should be considered as part of the armamentarium to break the pain cycle along with exercise and pain procedures like nucleoplasty and radiofrequency ablation treatments and pulsed radiofrequency.
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