Dr. Amen claims that chronic pain, regardless of its location in the body, ultimately originates and is processed within the brain.

“pain, you know, if it's your back, your hip, your neck, ultimately comes to live in your brain.”

Ed Mylett suggests that his persistent physical issues, such as back pain, are likely linked to the neurological pathways and brain patterns discussed by Dr. Amen.

“I think this is a result of this brain thing I got going on with my with these different pathways.”

Mindfulness-based techniques can reduce chronic pain by changing how the brain processes pain, allowing for a 30% reduction in moment-to-moment pain intensity.

“the acute practice of this mindful zooming in and zooming out meditation that can alleviate pain in the moment by about 30% on average. And that's about as much pain relief as you would expect from 5 milligs of oxycontton.”

Chronic pain is a complex condition where the nervous system's alarm mechanism becomes hijacked, often requiring a multidisciplinary approach including mental health support.

“but sometimes what happens is that the alarm system gets hijacked and he We call it chronic pain, so the pain that lasts more than six months”

There is no such thing as nonspecific back pain, as all chronic back pain can be attributed to specific mechanical causes.

“I don't categorize pain as being acute lasting a certain period of time and chronic lasting a longer period of time because when we measure people here with back pain very rarely do we find chronic back pain it's almost always due to them repeatedly insulting their back with many cute attacks”

The current standard medical approach to chronic pain is often inadequate and symptom-based, whereas regenerative medicine attempts to address root causes.

“the regenerative Medical types are attempting to get to the root cause of chronic health problems and to address them”

Regenerative medicine treatments like stem cells and exosomes can effectively repair damaged tissue and eliminate chronic pain where traditional allopathic medicine fails.

“what we do is what's called regenerative medicine so we use different types of regenerative molecules whether that's stem cells PRP exosomes which we'll talk about to repair the tissue back to a previous state”

Sally K. Norton contends that avoiding oxalates can alleviate chronic pain by reducing the toxic burden on the nervous system, which may allow the body to recover from systemic inflammation.

“you've cut out a lot of plant foods and you've probably cut way down on oxalate poisoning and so you're no longer poison with oxalate and boy does the nervous system appreciate that we can see reversals of a lot a lot of problems that involve the nervous system”