Reducing Inflammation
We recently featured Dr. Nathan Morris of Good Medicine Colorado on The Headache Doctor Podcast for a discussion on functional medicine and the role that inflammation plays in our body’s ability to process pain signals and heal itself. As we have discussed in previous podcast episodes (see The Effects of Diet on Headaches and Migraines ), inflammation can play a role in triggering a headache or a migraine attack . When we introduce inflammatory factors into an environment that is already dysfunctional at its baseline, our threshold for tolerating pain and dysfunction drops. Inflammation can be caused by lifestyle factors such as stress, lack of sleep, or obesity or by foods and things we ingest such as alcohol, sugar, and fried foods. Below are a few practical tips that you can implement to reduce inflammation within your body. Reduce Stress Consider implementing a yoga practice into your daily routine. Yoga helps build a mind-body connection and is a low impact way of moving your ...