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Mailbag Installment 30: When the Body Becomes an Adversary | Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Neuroplasticity, Central Sensitization, Nervous System Healing
In this Mailbag Installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener who has spent years living with severe, unexplained chronic pain.
After countless medical appointments, inconclusive answers, failed treatments, and growing despair, the listener asks a devastating question:
What do you do when your body becomes an adversary?
This episode explores the psychological, neurological, and existential dimensions of chronic pain.
Drawing upon contemporary neuroscience, pain research, neuroplasticity, autonomic regulation, and nervous system adaptation, Dr. Rey examines…
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