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Pain Killers PREVENT Healing
When we have a pain or injury, we automatically take something like acetominophen or ibuprofen, or accept being prescribed opioids by doctor who just wants to shut us up.
Some even assume that these analgesics help us heal.
But that's the opposite of what happens.
Pain Killers Can Actually Slow or Stop Your Healing and Make Pain Worse or Chronic in the Long Run
1. They directly block hormones that heal your injury, called prostaglandins, which regulate tissue repair.
2. They also reduce swelling, which sounds good, but that swelling is part of your body healing the injury.
3. And the very act of blocking pain prevents healing, because that pain tells your body to heal.
4.It also can hide when you're making the injury worse by letting you use the injured part instead of resting it
5.Your body responds to pain killers by increasing the strength of pain signals more and more, which can lead to chronic pain based on nothing but the drug.
Pain Killers PREVENT Healing
When we have a pain or injury, we automatically take something like acetominophen or ibuprofen, or accept being prescribed opioids by doctor who just wants to shut us up.
Some even assume that these analgesics help us heal.
But that's the opposite of what happens.
Pain Killers Can Actually Slow or Stop Your Healing and Make Pain Worse or Chronic in the Long Run
1. They directly block hormones that heal your injury, called prostaglandins, which regulate tissue repair.
2. They also reduce swelling, which sounds good, but that swelling is part of your body healing the injury.
3. And the very act of blocking pain prevents healing, because that pain tells your body to heal.
4.It also can hide when you're making the injury worse by letting you use the injured part instead of resting it
5.Your body responds to pain killers by increasing the strength of pain signals more and more, which can lead to chronic pain based on nothing but the drug.