Adam Blanning MD and Elizabeth Sustick RN: Pain is an important messenger, one that we should pay attention to! There are different kinds of pain—physical, functional, sensory, and developmental. Simply blocking pain without addressing the underlying imbalance does not help us heal the root cause. Routinely suppressing or blocking inflammatory reactions of the immune system seems to be contributing to the rising incidence of chronic, allergic inflammatory illnesses (asthma, eczema, hay fever, food allergies).
