Quick! What’s your favorite food? Picture it. Imagine it. Taste it as if it was there.

According to a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, because pain is an emotional response, pleasurable emotions can help counteract pain. In this article, In Pain? Your Favorite Food May Get You Through It, the author writes, “With food fantasy intervention, subjects were able to withstand pain
twice as well and had a higher pain threshold than when they didn’t
fantasize. Subjects who did not fantasize about anything showed almost
no improvement in pain tolerance and threshold while subjects who
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People sometimes say that they eat to help them feel better. Of course, they usually mean this to be feeling better emotionally or psychologically, but can food help you feel better physically too?

According to this article, Healing Meals: Foods That May Fight Pain, yes, certain foods can help people who are living with chronic pain. The article doesn’t recommend any particular diet or foods, but rather counsels on the trial-and-error method of elimination diets: eliminating different foods one by one to see if you feel a difference in your pain levels.
Might be worth a try.
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