A lot of chronic pain is caused by chronic inflammation. For example, many cases of arthritis are caused or triggered by chronic inflammation.
And the food that you eat is one of the biggest causes of inflammation.
Here are three foods that are potentially causing massive inflammation, and therefore contributing to chronic pain:
A. Refined sugar
Using sweeteners like maple syrup, honey, xylitol and erythritol will still give you that sweet taste but protect you from the damage of inflammation.
B. Vegetable oil and Trans Fats
Vegetable oils and trans fats are high in damaging Omega 6 fatty acids (not to be confused with healthy Omega 3 fatty acids), and they can clog your arteries, increase your cholesterol, and are great contributors to chronic inflammation.
And they don’t even taste that good!
There are lots of healthy and tasty fats you can use instead:
- avocado oil
- coconut oil
- extra-virgin olive oil
- walnut oil
*Note: A lot of processed and packaged foods use trans fats to increase shelf life. So choose fresh foods as much as possible.
C. Processed Meats (bacon, bologna and lunch meat)
A lot of “conventional” meat can cause inflammation because most meat is raised in a way that is harmful to the animals and therefore creates unhealthy by-products in the meat.
For example, many cows today are fed genetically modified corn, but cows did not evolve eating corn, they evolved eating grass. And feeding a cow food that isn’t healthy for it undoubtedly produces negative side-effects for the animal and the meat, just like you eating unhealthy food causes negative side-effects in you.
Highly-processed meats like bacon, bologna, and lunch meat are some of the most inflammatory meats. Not only are the animals often raised in unhealthy ways, but the meat is often treated with chemicals that can be inflammatory.
So, if you want to reduce your chronic pain, any meat you eat should be raised as natural as possible so that the meat is as healthy as possible.
In other words, you want organic, sustainably raised meat. Examples are bison, grass fed beef, and organic chicken.
You can also increase the amount of healthy fish you eat, like wild-caught salmon and sardines.
*Note: Sardines are one of the healthiest and most environmentally sustainable fish on the planet.
3: Stem Cell Treatment
Perhaps the easiest and longest-lasting solution to your chronic pain is getting a stem cell treatment.