Control Pain & Heal Faster With Your Brain

In this episode, I describe the science of how and why pain arises in the body and brain, and how we can actively control our experience of pain. I discuss inflammation, stress, acupuncture, limb damage and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). I review protocols that leverage the lymphatic and nervous system to accelerate pain relief and healing in a variety of situations. Other topics discussed include how heat versus cold impacts neurons and wounds, red-light, sunlight, stem cells and more.  Read the full show notes for this episode at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://athleticgreens.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/hubermanlab Waking Up: https://www.wakingup.com/huberman Timestamps 00:00:00 Introduction/Avenues for Support   00:00:31 Sponsors: AG1, LMNT & Waking Up   00:04:58 Deliberate Unlearning   00:06:43 Pain, Injury and Regeneration   00:09:17 A System of Touch (Somatosensation)   00:11:42 Pain and Injury are Dissociable   00:15:19 Objective versus Subjective Control of Experience   00:16:15 Plasticity of Perception   00:16:41 Lack of Pain Is Self-Destructive; So Is Excessive Pain   00:18:42 Homoculous, Ratonculous, Dogunculus   00:19:05 “Sensitivity” explained   00:21:30 Inflammation   00:22:24 Phantom Limb Pain   00:24:00 Top-down Relief of Pain by Vision   00:26:41 From Deaf to Hearing Sounds   00:28:10 Pain Is In The Mind & Body   00:29:44 Recovering Movement Faster After Injury   00:35:00 Don’t Over Compensate   00:37:34 Concussion, TBI & Brain Ageing   00:40:49 The Brain’s Sewage Treatment System: Glymphatic Clearance   00:43:05 Body Position & Angle During Sleep   00:44:30 Types of Exercise For Restoring & Maintaining Brain Health   00:47:33 Ambulance Cells in The Brain   00:49:20 True Pain Control by Belief and Context   00:51:45 Romantic Love and Pain   00:55:05 Dopaminergic Control of Pain   00:57:15 Acupuncture: Rigorous Scientific Assessment   01:07:32 Vagus Activation and Autonomic Control of Pain   01:08:30 Inflammation,