Food as Medicine

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Foods are powerful medicine and been used centuries to treat wide rage of ailments. Which food to use for relief depends where the pain is located. Nutrients work against pain in four ways. They can reduce damage at the site of injury, cool your body's inflammatory response, provide analgesia on pain nerves themselves, and even work within the brain to reduce pain sensitivity. The most important approach for you depends on the kind of pain you have. If you have arthritis, your goal is to stop the joint damage along with the pain. If you have cancer pain or chest pain, you can choose foods to affect the disease process itself. If you have shingles, diabetic nerve pains, or carpal tunnel syndrome, you need to fix a problem within the nerves. If you have a chronic backache, headaches, abdominal pain, or cramps, you just want the pain to disappear. Specific foods can help with all of these.I believe that when you get the all nutrients for you body from natural food you shouldn't have any pains at all .However if the pain is through accident then there is also foods to give you relief and also speeding up recovery time. Also sometimes the pain in some part of body shows you that is underlying cause of the problem and in order to get rid of the pain you have to treat whole body .For example migraines can be caused by kidney stones ,or simple strain of the ankle and even psychological problems can cause it.Pains like menstrual cramps ,back pain ,water retention and headaches and migraines might be also caused by hormonal imbalance. To get rid of the pain we have to look foods or supplements which balance hormones. Taking extra supplements of B6 will help water retention also it feeds the nerves and raises serotonin levels in the blood.All inflammations chilly peppers ,tumeric, celery,fish oil and flax seed oil can help give you relief of the pain natural

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