August 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Chronic joint pain doesn't have to be your life sentence. As a chiropractor with nearly two decades of experience, I've witnessed countless patients transform their health by understanding one critical connection: inflammation.
That nagging pain in your knees, shoulders, or hands isn't just "getting old" – it's your body's alarm system signaling a deeper issue. One in four American adults struggles with chronic pain, and at its core lies inflammation, the smoldering fire that breaks down cartilage, irritates tendons, and creates persistent discomfort. But here's the crucial distinction many miss: acute inflammation heals us, while chronic inflammation destroys us.
The fascinating part? Your inflammatory fires likely have specific triggers you've never considered. Beyond the obvious culprits like sugar and processed foods, hidden factors may be fueling your pain – from improper sleep patterns elevating cortisol to environmental toxins in everyday products. Even that plastic water bottle heating up in your car could be contributing to your joint issues. For those who've "tried everything," undiagnosed gut dysbiosis or autoimmune conditions may be the missing piece.
Through this episode, I share the three-pronged approach that has consistently helped my patients find relief: targeted mobility (even when it hurts), strategic elimination of inflammatory triggers, and evidence-based supplements that support joint health. You'll learn why conventional testing often misses the root causes and how functional medicine offers a more comprehensive approach to identifying what's really happening in your body.
Whether you're currently managing joint pain or hoping to prevent it, this episode provides actionable strategies to put out the inflammatory fires and restore comfortable movement. Ready to transform your joint health? Listen now, then reach out to us at info@fulllifetampa.com if you need personalized guidance on your healing journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Ever wake up with stiff knees, sore shoulders or
aching hands and wonder why it'sgetting worse and not better?
Well, this episode's for you.
I'm Dr Enrico Del Ciccori.
We're talking aboutinflammation and the connection
it has in the body.
One in four adults in the USexperience chronic pain and
inflammation and is the commonthread between all of them.
Today we're diving deep intothe inflammation connection why
(00:25):
your joints hurt, the hiddensources of inflammation most
people overlook, and naturalways to calm it so that you move
freely again.
We see it a lot, especially aschiropractors in our office
people with joint pain, shoulderpain, knee pain, ankle pain and
it's there and it happens incertain demographics for certain
reasons.
But the underlying cause formany, many people is
(00:47):
inflammation, and inflammationis a blanket statement when it
comes to overall health.
Inflammation resides in allparts of the body.
It can be subcutaneous, it canbe in the gut, it can be brain
inflammation, it can be nervoussystem inflammation, it can be
joint inflammation, it can beall of the above.
Inflammation can rage fires allover the body.
So today's connection is aboutrecently, a lot of patients
(01:07):
dealing with joint pain and Iwas like hey, we got to talk a
little bit deeper into this andwhat's going on.
Just like the word stress,inflammation is the same.
Stress is a relatively bad term.
We negate it with negativeconnotations, and inflammation
is too.
But there is positive.
Stresses like gravity keeps uson our feet and so we don't
(01:29):
float away, and physical stresscan be a good thing.
On muscles, we can regenerateand grow bigger and stronger
lean muscle Stress is a big wordtoo.
Same thing with inflammation.
Inflammation can be acute orchronic.
Acute inflammation is how thebody heals itself.
So it is a good thing, it'sdesigned to be a good thing.
(01:49):
It's how we heal our tissue.
So if we get hit with a hockeypuck on the arm and we bruise up
and we get that swelling andthat discoloration, the body's
using that time to heal andregenerate the soft tissue that
was hurt and the blood vesselsthat were broken and the blood
that was lost, to create thatbruise and reabsorb it.
And then it's gone.
Within days to a couple ofweeks it's gone and that's the
(02:12):
body's way of healing and that'sconsidered acute inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is bad.
It damages tissue over time.
It's funny how good stress canhelp us and then bad stress can
just deteriorate us over time.
The same thing withinflammation how good
inflammation immediately canhelp heal us, and long-term
(02:32):
inflammation can actually breakus down.
And that's what this podcast isall about.
We need to connect it to howit's affecting people with joint
pain, and ongoing inflammationbreaks down cartilage, it
irritates tendons and ligamentsand it makes pain flare more
often.
So think of it like a smallcampfire in your knee Helpful if
(02:54):
it's controlled, but damagingif it's left burning all the
time.
And that's what we're going totalk about.
How do we put out these firesto the best of our ability to
minimize or limit inflammationin the long run to the best of
our ability to minimize or limitinflammation in the long run?
And the hidden triggers arecoming from.
You know the usual suspects.
We've talked about these onmany, many podcasts, because
it's just how the universe works.
(03:15):
Food-related stress is there.
It happens because of thechoices we make with the foods
that we eat Excessive sugar,refined carbohydrates, processed
oils or rancid oils and transfats.
They are the usual suspectswhen it comes to inflammation.
So if you're dealing withinflamed joints, we have to
start there.
We have to use good oils tocook.
(03:35):
We have to eliminate trans fats, maybe minimize or completely
eliminate refined carbohydratesand definitely remove excessive
sugars.
The sugars that come in fruitsor natural whole foods is great,
but the excessive sugars or therefined sugars should be
eliminated.
See what happens to your bodyin 7, 10, 14 days and you'll
(03:56):
know why I bring this up everysingle time.
Many people get subsequentrelief from joint pain by
changing their diet.
But what about the rest of us?
What about the others that doeat really well and still have
inflammation?
Well, these things can belifestyle related, like poor
sleep, chronic stress orinactivity, sedentary lifestyle.
(04:17):
It could be environmentaltoxins as well, chemicals in
household products that we justbecame unaware of, air quality
and even plastics in the BPAs orthe things that we drink.
Maybe you drink bottled waterfrom the plastic bottles.
You buy those all the time, andhere in the South, you know in
Florida, things get hot If youleave that plastic bottle in
(04:38):
your car for a little bit, heatsup, you leave it overnight, it
cools back down and then thenext day you take a sip out of
it.
Those bpas, those plastics, arenow in the water because of the
drastic temperature changeswhen you heat up the plastic.
Uh, a lot of drinks shouldn'tbe in plastic containers for
long periods of time.
Sometimes, even when we try anddo the right thing and get
clean canteens or metalcontainers to drink from, we
(05:03):
don't clean the silicone strawin there.
Very often we get mold andmildew buildup in there and
we're drinking that continuously.
So just these little thingsthat we have to be aware of in
our environment.
And then there's alsoundiagnosed conditions.
This is probably the moststressful part for most people
(05:23):
of trying to figure out whenthey go down the health journey
of symptoms with joint pain isthe undiagnosed things, and this
is where functional medicine isprobably the most vital tool
you can introduce into yourfamily's health is autoimmune
disorders.
Gut dysbiosis and low gradeinfections can really lead to
this chronic inflammation thatjust wears the body down.
(05:44):
So little things that we cantalk about in this podcast.
Get your brain stimulated onthe next steps to help yourself
live a healthier life.
But there are natural ways andwe're going to talk about some
tidbits that you can take homeright away and help protect your
joints in the long run isnutrition we talked about the
inflammatory things that we canavoid, but what about the things
(06:05):
that we can help to act asanti-inflammatory foods, like
wild caught fish, leafy greenvegetables, berries like
blueberries, acai raspberries,blackberries, acai raspberries,
blackberries, all that Evenstrawberries are great Turmeric,
curcumin, olive oil thesethings all act as
(06:29):
anti-inflammatory foods.
So you can easily stock yourkitchen with these things in
your fridge to help introducethese things to your diet.
Elimination trial Big fan ofthis to just eliminate or
elimination diet.
Cut common inflammatory foods,like we said, 7, 10, 14 days,
even up to 30 days 30 daysyou'll get a greater effect.
Cut them right out of the diet,eliminate them.
Elimination diet's protocol isreally to eliminate all
(06:52):
inflammatory foods and thenslowly reintroduce them after
that 30-day cycle.
So this can be the easiest andmost cost effective way to do
this because you can journal itat home and without any
supervision or any type ofmedication or assistance on this
is you just eliminate and thenstart adding them back Once you
get inflammatory responses.
(07:13):
Let's say, you bring backcreamer in your coffee and
you're like, oh boy, don't tellme it's dairy.
And you can kind of find out.
Maybe you already know thesethings and this podcast is not
about ignorance.
If you know what your um, whatyour inflammatory markers are
and you still drink the dairyand you do that stuff.
Well, shame on you, right,that's, that's your choice and
(07:33):
you're doing that to yourself.
But we're talking about thethings and people that are
really hopeless right now aboutwhat to do next.
This podcast is for you.
With inflammation, movement it'salmost counterintuitive.
When your knees hurt, what areyou supposed to do?
It's like, hey, go for a walk.
Well, they hurt.
But low impact exercise likeswimming, cycling, yoga or
(07:54):
stretching can really help getsynovial fluid movement inside
of the joints, which help pumpwaste products out of there
along with inflammation.
So movement is key, even thoughjoints can be painful.
It's almost like thisdouble-edged sword with joint
pain.
We got to move and it's reallyimportant on doing this every
(08:15):
day for a certain amount of time, because you have to build the
consistency in the joint,whether it's shoulder, wrist,
elbow, knees, ankles, hips,whatever it is.
We got to have continuousmovement in them.
So stress and sleep are almostlike the kerosene that gets
thrown on the fire.
If we're not getting good sleep, cortisol's role in
(08:36):
inflammation is quite large.
And if we're not getting theseven to eight hours of proper
circadian rhythm sleep, we thenhave a non-negotiable when it
comes to inflammation Cortisolwill just keep fueling
inflammation in the body.
So some supplements to help uswith that are omega-3s these
come in fish oils, those are thebest sources of them Turmeric
(08:58):
and curcumin, glucosamine,glucosamine, can dryden I
recommend most and collagenpeptides or collagen in itself.
These are fantastic supplementsto just start taking and help
you along the ride of youranti-inflammatory journey.
There's a lot of case studiesthat are out there on
inflammation and using thesetypes of supplements with
(09:21):
movement and elimination typediets.
So we help our patients in ouroffice with all of these things.
Chiropractic adjustments ofcourse, give immediate relief to
the joints, or some relief tothe joints by getting them moved
and manipulated properly andrealigned can help with the
joint pain for an acute time.
(09:41):
But if the inflammation isthere, it builds right back up.
So the best outcomes we havefor our patients are
chiropractic care because wehave a bunch of modalities we
can use with that physicaltherapy or chiropractic movement
, which we have a bunch ofmodalities we can use with that
physical therapy or chiropracticmovement, which is that
movement type physical therapiesthat are there.
Anti inflammatory diet is tocombine with the therapies with
(10:03):
that time.
So as we're working over thenext week, two weeks, three
weeks, and we have thiselimination diet, it works
really well, and then addingthose good nutrition and
supplements in there at the sametime.
It's a home run.
The only reason some of mypatients don't succeed is
because they don't followthrough with the recommendations
.
But if you're listening to thisand you do follow through with
these recommendations, you'regoing to immediately notice
(10:25):
relief and changes in your jointpain because you're minimizing
the inflammatory effects ofwhat's causing the pain in the
first place.
So do those three things.
Try to commit to 10 minutes ofmobility for those stress joints
.
I know you're saying they hurt,I don't want to move them, I
don't want to do anything, butjust 10 minutes.
(10:46):
You can break these into threeminute chunks for the day, three
times.
You can break them into 10, oneminute chunks If you want, one
minute walks on your knee justto just to help get that
momentum going.
But as you build up 10 minutesof movement of those joints, you
, every day, you start to builda positive feedback loop for
those joints to get thenutrition that they need pumped
(11:07):
to them, the blood flowing tothem, the waste products removed
from them and overall healingto start taking effect because
we're going to get better sleep.
If you need help with jointpain and we dig deep into that.
Fourth topic I talked about atthe very beginning, about the
hidden dangers or the hiddendiagnoses behind inflammation
(11:30):
gut dysbiosis, autoimmunedisorders.
Now we have to take it to thenext level with healthcare and,
unfortunately, with allopathicmedicine, your primary care,
that we talk about it withmedicine don't do the testing
that are required to dive deepinto the hidden causes of
inflammation.
What they run are standardtesting to look for pathology.
(11:52):
We call them surface-levelpathologies.
So you run a red blood cellcount, a white blood cell count,
a thyroid panel and a liverpanel.
That's typically how we startwith our wellness tests and if
we see something therehypercholesterolemia, increased
blood sugars now we're leadingdown the allopathic model of the
(12:16):
most common diseases anddisorders of being like high
cholesterol, diabetes,pre-diabetic thyroid issues, and
that's what they're screeningthere for.
Sometimes cancer can pop up inthese markers as well high
C-reactive protein,cardiovascular disease and
that's the medical model.
And if we're all millions of uspigeoned into that model, it's
(12:39):
easy to miss the deeper levelsof pathology.
So getting the deeper tests arelike a gut test, which is like
a stool test, autoimmune panel,blood test, deeper panel in your
blood markers, more endocrinemarkers and hormone testing.
These are the things that canend up bringing more to the
surface to tell a better pictureof the story of what's truly
(13:02):
going on.
Tell a better picture of thestory of what's truly going on.
Inflammation is a blanketcondition on the body.
It can affect many differentaspects of the body and if it's
joint pain that you're feelingand you've tried these things
the next level is functionalmedicine.
If you have questions aboutthis, reach out to info at
fulllifetampacom.
We love helping people thereand we'll find people in your
region that might be able tohelp you with these things.
(13:25):
I know our team's great with DrHafer in our office, so if you
have any questions there, sheloves answering them.
And the nice thing aboutfunctional medicine is it can be
done virtually.
It can be done anywhere.
You don't have to come to abunch of appointments.
If you need the physicalmedicine, we love helping you
there too.
So if we can find someone closeto you that's good with
physical therapy or chiropractic, we love doing that as well.
(13:45):
So reach out.
We'd love to help you guys getthe get the momentum going, and
what we've learned over our timeis is the accountability is how
we become better doctors andbetter patient care providers is
because we hold our patientsaccountable, and that's the very
that's the difference when itcomes to medicines.
They take care of so manypeople at so so much that it's
(14:06):
hard to follow through and helpeach and every individual move
forward, and I think we do apretty good job, even though we
help a lot of people, and wejust enjoy it.
We enjoy our jobs, we enjoydoing that.
So reach out.
It's the best way with thesepodcasts.
It's great to listen anddownload information from
podcasts, but if you don't takeaction, nothing really does
change, and you're I'm givingyou accountability right here.
So so reach out to us, sharethe podcast with anyone that you
(14:28):
know that might be having someinflammatory joint condition
issues, um, and, and these arethe types of patients that go in
and maybe even seen anorthopedic doctor or have seen
their primary care, gone for anMRI or an x-ray, and I have been
told they have like arthritisor osteoarthritis or
degenerative diseases in thejoint and they're not quite a
candidate for replacements.
(14:49):
Well, that's where medicine kindof ends there's no surgery.
Maybe they've tried a cortisoneinjection and then they're left
on the island to figure it outby themselves.
Those are the people we want totalk to.
Those are the people we want totry and help.
So many cool things right nowwith instantly trying to help
people with injectables,peptides, regenerative medicine
(15:10):
you can dive right down thathole too.
But the traditional way, theway I've been doing it my whole
career, almost 20 years now, isphysically mobilizing the joint
elimination diet, increasingsupplements that help with
inflammation, and it's funny how, over 17 plus years, it just
continuously helps people feelbetter.
It works every single time.
(15:31):
Stay well, stay healthy and ifyou need anything, reach out.
Ever wake up with stiff knees, sore shoulders or
aching hands and wonder why it'sgetting worse and not better?
Well, this episode's for you.
I'm Dr Enrico Del Ciccori.
We're talking aboutinflammation and the connection
it has in the body.
One in four adults in the USexperience chronic pain and
inflammation and is the commonthread between all of them.
Today we're diving deep intothe inflammation connection why
(00:25):
your joints hurt, the hiddensources of inflammation most
people overlook, and naturalways to calm it so that you move
freely again.
We see it a lot, especially aschiropractors in our office
people with joint pain, shoulderpain, knee pain, ankle pain and
it's there and it happens incertain demographics for certain
reasons.
But the underlying cause formany, many people is
(00:47):
inflammation, and inflammationis a blanket statement when it
comes to overall health.
Inflammation resides in allparts of the body.
It can be subcutaneous, it canbe in the gut, it can be brain
inflammation, it can be nervoussystem inflammation, it can be
joint inflammation, it can beall of the above.
Inflammation can rage fires allover the body.
So today's connection is aboutrecently, a lot of patients
(01:07):
dealing with joint pain and Iwas like hey, we got to talk a
little bit deeper into this andwhat's going on.
Just like the word stress,inflammation is the same.
Stress is a relatively bad term.
We negate it with negativeconnotations, and inflammation
is too.
But there is positive.
Stresses like gravity keeps uson our feet and so we don't
(01:29):
float away, and physical stresscan be a good thing.
On muscles, we can regenerateand grow bigger and stronger
lean muscle Stress is a big wordtoo.
Same thing with inflammation.
Inflammation can be acute orchronic.
Acute inflammation is how thebody heals itself.
So it is a good thing, it'sdesigned to be a good thing.
(01:49):
It's how we heal our tissue.
So if we get hit with a hockeypuck on the arm and we bruise up
and we get that swelling andthat discoloration, the body's
using that time to heal andregenerate the soft tissue that
was hurt and the blood vesselsthat were broken and the blood
that was lost, to create thatbruise and reabsorb it.
And then it's gone.
Within days to a couple ofweeks it's gone and that's the
(02:12):
body's way of healing and that'sconsidered acute inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is bad.
It damages tissue over time.
It's funny how good stress canhelp us and then bad stress can
just deteriorate us over time.
The same thing withinflammation how good
inflammation immediately canhelp heal us, and long-term
(02:32):
inflammation can actually breakus down.
And that's what this podcast isall about.
We need to connect it to howit's affecting people with joint
pain, and ongoing inflammationbreaks down cartilage, it
irritates tendons and ligamentsand it makes pain flare more
often.
So think of it like a smallcampfire in your knee Helpful if
(02:54):
it's controlled, but damagingif it's left burning all the
time.
And that's what we're going totalk about.
How do we put out these firesto the best of our ability to
minimize or limit inflammationin the long run to the best of
our ability to minimize or limitinflammation in the long run?
And the hidden triggers arecoming from.
You know the usual suspects.
We've talked about these onmany, many podcasts, because
it's just how the universe works.
(03:15):
Food-related stress is there.
It happens because of thechoices we make with the foods
that we eat Excessive sugar,refined carbohydrates, processed
oils or rancid oils and transfats.
They are the usual suspectswhen it comes to inflammation.
So if you're dealing withinflamed joints, we have to
start there.
We have to use good oils tocook.
(03:35):
We have to eliminate trans fats, maybe minimize or completely
eliminate refined carbohydratesand definitely remove excessive
sugars.
The sugars that come in fruitsor natural whole foods is great,
but the excessive sugars or therefined sugars should be
eliminated.
See what happens to your bodyin 7, 10, 14 days and you'll
(03:56):
know why I bring this up everysingle time.
Many people get subsequentrelief from joint pain by
changing their diet.
But what about the rest of us?
What about the others that doeat really well and still have
inflammation?
Well, these things can belifestyle related, like poor
sleep, chronic stress orinactivity, sedentary lifestyle.
(04:17):
It could be environmentaltoxins as well, chemicals in
household products that we justbecame unaware of, air quality
and even plastics in the BPAs orthe things that we drink.
Maybe you drink bottled waterfrom the plastic bottles.
You buy those all the time, andhere in the South, you know in
Florida, things get hot If youleave that plastic bottle in
(04:38):
your car for a little bit, heatsup, you leave it overnight, it
cools back down and then thenext day you take a sip out of
it.
Those bpas, those plastics, arenow in the water because of the
drastic temperature changeswhen you heat up the plastic.
Uh, a lot of drinks shouldn'tbe in plastic containers for
long periods of time.
Sometimes, even when we try anddo the right thing and get
clean canteens or metalcontainers to drink from, we
(05:03):
don't clean the silicone strawin there.
Very often we get mold andmildew buildup in there and
we're drinking that continuously.
So just these little thingsthat we have to be aware of in
our environment.
And then there's alsoundiagnosed conditions.
This is probably the moststressful part for most people
(05:23):
of trying to figure out whenthey go down the health journey
of symptoms with joint pain isthe undiagnosed things, and this
is where functional medicine isprobably the most vital tool
you can introduce into yourfamily's health is autoimmune
disorders.
Gut dysbiosis and low gradeinfections can really lead to
this chronic inflammation thatjust wears the body down.
(05:44):
So little things that we cantalk about in this podcast.
Get your brain stimulated onthe next steps to help yourself
live a healthier life.
But there are natural ways andwe're going to talk about some
tidbits that you can take homeright away and help protect your
joints in the long run isnutrition we talked about the
inflammatory things that we canavoid, but what about the things
(06:05):
that we can help to act asanti-inflammatory foods, like
wild caught fish, leafy greenvegetables, berries like
blueberries, acai raspberries,blackberries, acai raspberries,
blackberries, all that Evenstrawberries are great Turmeric,
curcumin, olive oil thesethings all act as
(06:29):
anti-inflammatory foods.
So you can easily stock yourkitchen with these things in
your fridge to help introducethese things to your diet.
Elimination trial Big fan ofthis to just eliminate or
elimination diet.
Cut common inflammatory foods,like we said, 7, 10, 14 days,
even up to 30 days 30 daysyou'll get a greater effect.
Cut them right out of the diet,eliminate them.
Elimination diet's protocol isreally to eliminate all
(06:52):
inflammatory foods and thenslowly reintroduce them after
that 30-day cycle.
So this can be the easiest andmost cost effective way to do
this because you can journal itat home and without any
supervision or any type ofmedication or assistance on this
is you just eliminate and thenstart adding them back Once you
get inflammatory responses.
(07:13):
Let's say, you bring backcreamer in your coffee and
you're like, oh boy, don't tellme it's dairy.
And you can kind of find out.
Maybe you already know thesethings and this podcast is not
about ignorance.
If you know what your um, whatyour inflammatory markers are
and you still drink the dairyand you do that stuff.
Well, shame on you, right,that's, that's your choice and
(07:33):
you're doing that to yourself.
But we're talking about thethings and people that are
really hopeless right now aboutwhat to do next.
This podcast is for you.
With inflammation, movement it'salmost counterintuitive.
When your knees hurt, what areyou supposed to do?
It's like, hey, go for a walk.
Well, they hurt.
But low impact exercise likeswimming, cycling, yoga or
(07:54):
stretching can really help getsynovial fluid movement inside
of the joints, which help pumpwaste products out of there
along with inflammation.
So movement is key, even thoughjoints can be painful.
It's almost like thisdouble-edged sword with joint
pain.
We got to move and it's reallyimportant on doing this every
(08:15):
day for a certain amount of time, because you have to build the
consistency in the joint,whether it's shoulder, wrist,
elbow, knees, ankles, hips,whatever it is.
We got to have continuousmovement in them.
So stress and sleep are almostlike the kerosene that gets
thrown on the fire.
If we're not getting good sleep, cortisol's role in
(08:36):
inflammation is quite large.
And if we're not getting theseven to eight hours of proper
circadian rhythm sleep, we thenhave a non-negotiable when it
comes to inflammation Cortisolwill just keep fueling
inflammation in the body.
So some supplements to help uswith that are omega-3s these
come in fish oils, those are thebest sources of them Turmeric
(08:58):
and curcumin, glucosamine,glucosamine, can dryden I
recommend most and collagenpeptides or collagen in itself.
These are fantastic supplementsto just start taking and help
you along the ride of youranti-inflammatory journey.
There's a lot of case studiesthat are out there on
inflammation and using thesetypes of supplements with
(09:21):
movement and elimination typediets.
So we help our patients in ouroffice with all of these things.
Chiropractic adjustments ofcourse, give immediate relief to
the joints, or some relief tothe joints by getting them moved
and manipulated properly andrealigned can help with the
joint pain for an acute time.
(09:41):
But if the inflammation isthere, it builds right back up.
So the best outcomes we havefor our patients are
chiropractic care because wehave a bunch of modalities we
can use with that physicaltherapy or chiropractic movement
, which we have a bunch ofmodalities we can use with that
physical therapy or chiropracticmovement, which is that
movement type physical therapiesthat are there.
Anti inflammatory diet is tocombine with the therapies with
(10:03):
that time.
So as we're working over thenext week, two weeks, three
weeks, and we have thiselimination diet, it works
really well, and then addingthose good nutrition and
supplements in there at the sametime.
It's a home run.
The only reason some of mypatients don't succeed is
because they don't followthrough with the recommendations
.
But if you're listening to thisand you do follow through with
these recommendations, you'regoing to immediately notice
(10:25):
relief and changes in your jointpain because you're minimizing
the inflammatory effects ofwhat's causing the pain in the
first place.
So do those three things.
Try to commit to 10 minutes ofmobility for those stress joints
.
I know you're saying they hurt,I don't want to move them, I
don't want to do anything, butjust 10 minutes.
(10:46):
You can break these into threeminute chunks for the day, three
times.
You can break them into 10, oneminute chunks If you want, one
minute walks on your knee justto just to help get that
momentum going.
But as you build up 10 minutesof movement of those joints, you
, every day, you start to builda positive feedback loop for
those joints to get thenutrition that they need pumped
(11:07):
to them, the blood flowing tothem, the waste products removed
from them and overall healingto start taking effect because
we're going to get better sleep.
If you need help with jointpain and we dig deep into that.
Fourth topic I talked about atthe very beginning, about the
hidden dangers or the hiddendiagnoses behind inflammation
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gut dysbiosis, autoimmunedisorders.
Now we have to take it to thenext level with healthcare and,
unfortunately, with allopathicmedicine, your primary care,
that we talk about it withmedicine don't do the testing
that are required to dive deepinto the hidden causes of
inflammation.
What they run are standardtesting to look for pathology.
(11:52):
We call them surface-levelpathologies.
So you run a red blood cellcount, a white blood cell count,
a thyroid panel and a liverpanel.
That's typically how we startwith our wellness tests and if
we see something therehypercholesterolemia, increased
blood sugars now we're leadingdown the allopathic model of the
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most common diseases anddisorders of being like high
cholesterol, diabetes,pre-diabetic thyroid issues, and
that's what they're screeningthere for.
Sometimes cancer can pop up inthese markers as well high
C-reactive protein,cardiovascular disease and
that's the medical model.
And if we're all millions of uspigeoned into that model, it's
(12:39):
easy to miss the deeper levelsof pathology.
So getting the deeper tests arelike a gut test, which is like
a stool test, autoimmune panel,blood test, deeper panel in your
blood markers, more endocrinemarkers and hormone testing.
These are the things that canend up bringing more to the
surface to tell a better pictureof the story of what's truly
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going on.
Tell a better picture of thestory of what's truly going on.
Inflammation is a blanketcondition on the body.
It can affect many differentaspects of the body and if it's
joint pain that you're feelingand you've tried these things
the next level is functionalmedicine.
If you have questions aboutthis, reach out to info at
fulllifetampacom.
We love helping people thereand we'll find people in your
region that might be able tohelp you with these things.
(13:25):
I know our team's great with DrHafer in our office, so if you
have any questions there, sheloves answering them.
And the nice thing aboutfunctional medicine is it can be
done virtually.
It can be done anywhere.
You don't have to come to abunch of appointments.
If you need the physicalmedicine, we love helping you
there too.
So if we can find someone closeto you that's good with
physical therapy or chiropractic, we love doing that as well.
(13:45):
So reach out.
We'd love to help you guys getthe get the momentum going, and
what we've learned over our timeis is the accountability is how
we become better doctors andbetter patient care providers is
because we hold our patientsaccountable, and that's the very
that's the difference when itcomes to medicines.
They take care of so manypeople at so so much that it's
(14:06):
hard to follow through and helpeach and every individual move
forward, and I think we do apretty good job, even though we
help a lot of people, and wejust enjoy it.
We enjoy our jobs, we enjoydoing that.
So reach out.
It's the best way with thesepodcasts.
It's great to listen anddownload information from
podcasts, but if you don't takeaction, nothing really does
change, and you're I'm givingyou accountability right here.
So so reach out to us, sharethe podcast with anyone that you
(14:28):
know that might be having someinflammatory joint condition
issues, um, and, and these arethe types of patients that go in
and maybe even seen anorthopedic doctor or have seen
their primary care, gone for anMRI or an x-ray, and I have been
told they have like arthritisor osteoarthritis or
degenerative diseases in thejoint and they're not quite a
candidate for replacements.
(14:49):
Well, that's where medicine kindof ends there's no surgery.
Maybe they've tried a cortisoneinjection and then they're left
on the island to figure it outby themselves.
Those are the people we want totalk to.
Those are the people we want totry and help.
So many cool things right nowwith instantly trying to help
people with injectables,peptides, regenerative medicine
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you can dive right down thathole too.
But the traditional way, theway I've been doing it my whole
career, almost 20 years now, isphysically mobilizing the joint
elimination diet, increasingsupplements that help with
inflammation, and it's funny how, over 17 plus years, it just
continuously helps people feelbetter.
It works every single time.
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Stay well, stay healthy and ifyou need anything, reach out.
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