If poor health habits got you into chronic pain, do you think that poor health habits will get you out pain? Oh, you believe MVA caused your pains. You are correct that the MVA was seed, but the fertile soil came from many years poor health habits.

Analogy: Garbage In, Garbage Out!

If you ask for help with your chronic pain from a Orofacial Pain Specialist, then why have you not ask your body for help with your healing?

You do realize that your body will not produce proper levels of growth hormone (healing hormone) or interferon (viral defense), when you abuse your body with poor nutrition ?

A doctor cannot undo what your are regularly doing to yourself?  That is why the patient must be part of team in chronic pain. The patient is responsible for what they put in their mouth that perpetuates chronic pain or impairs healing ! At the least,  love your body enough to shift nutrition to healthier state during the chronic pain management program. We, the team, need all help we can get.

Following is what good nutrition includes:

1. Energy
2. Nutrients
3. Flora health
4. Trace elements
5. Addictions
6. Stimulants
7. Micro poisons
8. Vitamins
9. Food groups
10. Sensitivities 

Following are questions to ask yourself if you don't have good nutrition.

1. How can you expect heal your TMD, when you can’t commit to eating right?
2. Why would you expect a nightguard to fix TMD if you are addicted to caffeine ?
3. Why take a drug to improve your IBS without first committing to eat properly?
4. When will your sugar addiction causes damage to other organs especially your joints?
5. What foods are you unwilling to give up for "YOUR" pains ?

Remove poisons-addictions-cravings-dependence such as:

1. Sugar
2. Alcohol
3. Nicotene
4. Caffeine

EXAMPLE NUTRITIONAL POWER: A keto diet was instituted by a fellow with arthritis in his right knee. HIs right knee pain went away for many years. Could it have been several things that relieved pain? Yes. Before you dismiss this as not science, please understand he (this is me) is lay expert at arthritis with artificial left knee, right hip, left hip, and fusion C6-C7. What is nutritional secret? Giving up carbs, sugars, starches, breads, pasta, etc.

Harmony of organs systems requires a balance of 1) nutrition, 2) cardio conditioning, 3) quality sleep, and 4) positive thought loops.

New source inflammation in MIGRAINES:

Chemical sensitivities: 1) Sources of inflammation in chemicals in our foods. 2) Newly discovered source inflammation 3) Micro nutrients in our food 4) Adds to major sources of inflammation 5) Borderline Migraine can be triggered by these chemicals

Chemical Sensitivity Test: 1) Blood test determines hidden source of inflammation 2) ALCAT & ELISA are two test 3) Suffering from headaches or migraines, you may need to request these test 4) Only other way is Elimination Diet 5) A proven blood test for inflammation-WOW 6) Insurance will not cover the highly accurate blood test 7) We have heard red wine or hot dogs set off migraines 8) patient ate fresh ginger setting off migraine

The greatest news in migraine is there is a blood test that can accurately determine one of the hidden sources of inflammation, CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES.

The old way was the elimination diet. Stumbling across red wine or nitrates as a chemical sensitivity is like "blind hog finds an acorn"

The highly accurate blood test is ELISA ACT TEST and your greedy insurance company will not pay for the test.