Gordon Irving, MD is an anesthesiologist and retired director of the Swedish Pain Clinic in Seattle, WA. Learn how we experience pain and why drugs don’t work well for chronic pain. Learn what areas of the brain are involved in pain and why emotions, depression and anxiety add “fuel” to the fire (pain). Find out how being obese can increase both inflammation and pain, and the role gluten and sugar may play. Includes discussion of the gut microbiome and obesity.
(Lecture date: October 2013, Length: 51:49)