Rethinking Inflammation: How ‘Rest And Ice’ Is Sabotaging Your Healing

Rethinking Inflammation: How ‘Rest And Ice’ Is Sabotaging Your Healing Everything you know about inflammation may be wrong. While standard protocols like rest and icing aim to suppress inflammation, new research suggests that an intense, short-term inflammatory response is actually essential for the body's natural healing process. Dr. Thomas Buchheit, explains how to rethink our relationship with inflammation and leverage our own biological systems to heal joints and nerves. Guest: Dr. Thomas Buchheit, Director of the Regenerative Pain Therapies Program, Duke Center for Translational Pain Medicine, author, Healing Joints and Nerves Host and Producer: Kristen Farrah Facebook: ingoodhealthpod X: @ ingoodhealthpod IG: @ingoodhealthpod YouTube: @ingoodhealthpod Spotify Apple Podcast In Good Health Podcast Subscribed to the newsletter Full Archive Contact Us Become an Affiliate Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

You can listen to Rethinking Inflammation: How ‘Rest And Ice’ Is Sabotaging Your Healing online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Rethinking Inflammation: How ‘Rest And Ice’ Is Sabotaging Your Healing is an episode from Radio Health Journal by AURN.

This episode is 00:11:48 long.

This episode was published on Apr 25, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Radio Health Journal when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.