Designed To Heal Podcast: Your Body's Amazing Healing Power · Achieve Wellness

Going Out With A Bang! 3 Crazy Studies You Need To Hear About!

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A BMJ study on 6,500 people found tramadol’s pain relief was not clinically significant versus placebo.

1. Designed To Heal Podcast: Your Body's Amazing Healing Power centers this episode on three recent studies and Dr. Ben Rall’s view that the body is “designed to heal.” 2. Dr. Ben Rall is the host, and he frames himself as a chiropractor and faith-based wellness teacher who argues against the medical model. 3. The episode asks whether recent research on tramadol, Parkinson’s, and polypharmacy supports a lifestyle-and-environment view of health. 4. Rall says a British Medical Journal article studied about 6,500 people with osteoarthritis, back pain, and muscular pain. 5. He says those participants received tramadol or placebo and that the pain difference was not clinically significant. 6. He says the same tramadol study showed higher cardiovascular risks, including heart attacks and strokes. 7. Rall says the first study matters because a widely prescribed opioid did not beat a sugar pill in a meaningful way. 8. He says that result shows the power of placebo and the power of the mind. 9. He says the tramadol discussion also exposes what he calls the “story of medicine” when a drug is used before its full effects are clear. 10. Rall shifts to Parkinson’s and says 90,000 Americans are diagnosed every year. 11. He cites Dr. Ray Dorsey of the University of Rochester, who says health is a function of “your environment in the past.” 12. Dorsey’s quoted examples include a refinery, lead in paint, a plastic sheath from a 1996 hot pocket, air pollution, forever chemicals, and pesticides. 13. Rall says Oxford researchers determined that lifestyle and environment are 10 times more likely to explain early death than genetics. 14. He uses that number to argue that genes are not the major driver of chronic disease. 15. Rall says the Parkinson’s section supports his belief that environment matters more than inherited risk. 16. He closes the study rundown with a BMC Geriatrics paper on polypharmacy, defined as taking six or more regular medications. 17. That study followed about 2,000 people from 2017 to 2024 and found worse outcomes for people on multiple drugs. 18. The tone is combative and conversational, with repeated rant-style passages and direct address to listeners. 19. The format suits listeners interested in chiropractic, faith-based wellness, and arguments against overmedication. 20. The format will likely lose listeners looking for neutral medical reporting or a calm research review.

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