Painful Food or Food for your pain

How many times have your patients asked you what food to eat and/or avoid to make their pain better?

Is your response a headshake or a shoulder shrug, or just a "I don't think so."?

So are there foods that make pain better or worse?

There are certain foods that have purported analgesic or anti-inflammatory properties, while there are some anecdotal evidence from big surveys.

The objective of this entry is to introduce you to the list of foods that makes pain worse or better.

 Pro-inflammatory foods 

• Sugars
• Fatty Food diet
• Caffeine (>4 cups a day)
• Omega-6 oils
• Eggplants, potatoes, tomatoes

There are some specific conditions in which.... 

Preclinical and clinical research has begun to show how diet influences pain processes

Similarly diet can play a modulatory role in pain mechanisms, resulting in attenuation of pain

Foods that relieve pain

Preclinical and clinical research has begun to show how diet influences pain processes

Similarly diet can play a modulatory role in pain mechanisms, resulting in attenuation of pain

I will now cover the type of foods that will relieve pain.