Bridget Conry of Companion Botanicals joins us to discuss different anti-inflammatory drugs and the various ways of managing chronic pain. She describes the problem with pain medications: “You want to feel pain. We have pain because it tells us stop doing that or something’s wrong. And the reason it gets so dangerous when we mask it is that all you’re doing is stopping your body from doing what it would normally do to deal with some sort of trauma. It’s a signal something’s wrong.” This is exactly where botanicals come in, although Conry notes that each botanical does something different, so it’s still important to consult with a healthcare practitioner and to know what works for you specifically. Conry distinguishes between the different types of botanical medicines, discusses the products that combine botanicals and CBD, and explains why CBD doesn’t help everyone fall asleep.
Seth Adler:
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Seth Adler:
All right, Bridget Conry is back. It's Companion Botanicals. Bridget, I love these, you love these. We love these. Thanks for doing it.
Bridget Conry:
Oh, you're welcome. Psyched to be here.
Seth Adler:
So last time we talked about pain relief but only using topicals so that we could kind of deal with this beast in parts.
Bridget Conry:
Exactly.
Seth Adler:
And now we're going to see what we can do to dive in. If we can go ahead and let some of these pain relief applications in. So I don't know, should we start with... I'm a Gen X kind of guy. I remember the 1980s when Tylenol was supposed to just kind of solve it, right?
Bridget Conry:
Yes. And you know what I was thinking about this. So we're talking about herbs to use that you ingest so that you have systemic pain management. And then I got thinking about it, I'm thinking about what do most people take to deal with chronic pain? They're taking prescription drugs that are usually got an anti-inflammatory component. There's steroids. There could be opiates. There's lots of options over there. And then there's the over the counter, which are Tylenol and Motrin and Advil and aspirin. I got to thinking, even me, I deal with herbs and all those things. I didn't really have a great sense of how those things worked. We just took them.
Seth Adler:
Yeah.
Bridget Conry:
Some people took a lot. I mean, I was an athlete at a high level, and we just were told take them all the time to deal with the pain. And for women and girls dealing with menstrual things, it's either Advil or Tylenol for girls. I mean, get personal here. But it's like you just took them, and did you really know what you were taking and some of the dangers that are associated with them?
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