Stop Chasing Pain

In this mini episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry shares powerful insights from one of his favorite books, A Simple Guide to Being Alive by Dr. David Rabin.

We explore why healing begins within us and why so many people become overwhelmed chasing the next supplement, biohack, or therapeutic modality while overlooking the fundamentals of health.

What if the path to better health is less about adding more and more about getting back to basics?

Dr. Perry discusses the importance of hydration, lymphatic health, movement, breathing, human connection, daily rituals, n...

What if the place where you feel pain isn't actually where the problem begins?

In this mini episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry 'The Lymph DOc' challenges the traditional approach to chronic pain and explains why treating only the painful body part may be keeping you stuck in an endless cycle of temporary relief and frustration.

When both feet hurt, both knees ache, or both hands experience pain, it may be time to stop focusing exclusively on those areas and start investigating the bigger picture.

Your brain, spinal cord, nervous...

What if something you can't see is influencing how your body responds to stress, recovers, and performs?

In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry welcomes Justin Frandson, athletic performance coach, author, and founder of EMF Rocks, to explore electromagnetic fields (EMFs), our increasingly technology-filled environment, and the relationship between nature, human physiology, and health.

We live surrounded by Wi-Fi, smartphones, Bluetooth devices, wireless technology, and electrical systems. But how much do we really understand about our everyday electromagnetic environment?

Justin brings his experience working with athletes and his interest i...

What if the secret to improving your health, reducing stress, changing your habits, and living a better life isn't about doing MORE, but doing LESS?

In this solo episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry introduces one of his favorite principles for creating meaningful change: The Inversion Principle.

Most people approach change by asking, "What do I need to start doing to get better?" They create long lists of new habits, routines, supplements, exercises, and goals. But what if we've been looking at things backward?

What if a better question is:

Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain: The Art of Self-Brain Surgery with Dr. Lee Warren

What if the way you think is shaping the way your brain functions, how your body responds, and how you experience the world?

In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry Nickelston sits down with neurosurgeon and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Lee Warren to explore the fascinating intersection of neuroscience, neuroplasticity, faith, and healing.

Dr. Warren is the author of The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery: Connecting Neuroscience and Faith to Radically Transform...

What if the biggest breakthrough in healing isn't learning something new, but getting back to what you've been overlooking all along?

After 30 years in clinical practice, I have learned something that completely changed how he approaches pain, health, and healing:

The human body isn't nearly as complicated as we make it.

In this solo episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry kicks off a new series sharing the lessons he wishes he'd known when he first started practicing three decades ago.

These aren't lessons from textbooks or research papers...

What if everything you were told about your heart was missing the bigger picture?

At 34, Dr. Stephen Hussey was doing everything "right." He ate whole foods, exercised, avoided toxins, and kept his type 1 diabetes under tight control. On paper his labs looked great. Then he had a massive "widowmaker" heart attack. In this episode, Stephen shares how the hospital's standard approach left him with more questions than answers, and how he chose a different path. He used infrared sauna, sunlight, grounding and circadian rhythm to bring his heart back to normal function within months. Over the next...

In this Mini Podcast episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry explores the surprising connection between your eyes, nervous system, movement, balance, and chronic pain.

Your eyes do far more than help you see. Eye movement communicates constantly with the vestibular system, cerebellum, brainstem, and the muscles that prepare your body for movement. That means problems with eye tracking, coordination, or gaze control may influence how you move, how you balance, and potentially where you experience persistent tension or discomfort.

Dr. Perry breaks down the relationship between eye movement and the cerebellum—the pa...

In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with board-certified cardiac surgeon and author Dr. Philip Ovadia for a wide-ranging conversation about heart disease, metabolic health, nutrition, and what it really means to take control of your health.

After more than 25 years as a heart surgeon, Dr. Ovadia brings a unique perspective to the conversation—not only from the thousands of patients he has treated, but from his own health journey. Once morbidly obese and pre-diabetic, he began questioning the conventional nutritional advice he had been taught after realizing it was...

In this powerful episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with Dean Hall, therapist, two-time cancer survivor, extreme-distance swimmer, and author of The Wild Cure: From Death to Life on Oregon's Longest River.

Dean shares the extraordinary story of swimming 187 miles of Oregon's Willamette River while facing leukemia and how the experience transformed his relationship with his body, grief, fear, and the natural world. What began as a challenge to leave his daughter a legacy of courage became a profound lesson in resilience, purpose, and refusing to let a diagnosis define your life. De...

In this solo mini-episode, Dr. Perry breaks down why the liver deserves a serious look for anyone dealing with chronic pain, chronic inflammation, or chronic disease. The liver performs over 500 functions in the body, and problems there often don't show up on standard blood work until things are already seriously compromised.

Dr. Perry walks through a simple self-check: pressing under the angle of the right ribcage to feel for tightness or tenderness, a sign the liver's fascia may be inflamed or under strain. He explains the liver's deep connection to the lymphatic system, since it produces 25–50% of th...

What if supporting brain health isn't only about neurons, neurotransmitters, and blood flow—but also about how effectively the brain moves fluid and clears waste?

In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with Shalin Bhatt for a deep dive into the rapidly evolving science of brain drainage, the glymphatic system, meningeal lymphatics, cerebrospinal fluid, and neuroinflammation.

They explore a fundamental question: How does the brain keep its internal environment clean and maintain fluid homeostasis?

The conversation examines emerging research suggesting that cerebrospinal fluid, the glymphatic system, meningeal ly...

The Law of Connection: Look Beyond Where It Hurts

In this mini episode, Dr. Perry introduces the first of the 30 Laws of Stop Chasing Pain: The Law of Connection—the idea that no system in the body works, gets injured, or heals in isolation.

When pain becomes chronic, focusing only on where it hurts may cause you to miss the bigger picture. A painful foot, for example, may involve compensations from the hip, opposite side of the body, circulation, lymphatic flow, the gut, nervous system, eyes, organs, fascia, or other interconnected systems.

Dr. Pe...

What if one of the most powerful tools for healing has been with you all along...your own nervous system?

In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with physician, neuroscientist, author, and Apollo Neuro co-founder Dr. David Rabin to dicuss how stress, soothing touch, vibration, and the vagus nerve influence pain, recovery, resilience, and emotional well-being. They discuss why chronic distress can keep the body locked in survival mode redirecting resources away from digestion, immunity, sleep, learning, creativity, and pain and why effective healing strategies don't always need to be complicated.<...

Healing can feel overwhelming especially when conflicting health advice, complicated protocols, and endless biohacks make you question every decision. In this mini episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry explains why healing may be simpler than you've been led to believe. Instead of adding more, it may be time to master less and return to the fundamentals your body needs most.

Discover the restorative power of drinking more water, walking every day, spending time in nature, moving with variety, and being present without your phone. Dr. Perry shares practical ways to begin wherever you are...

What if the goal isn't to control life, but to become better at responding to it? In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry welcomes back perception expert Dr. Beau Lotto to explore why life's nonlinear and unpredictable nature makes control an illusion. Beau explains the difference between control and agency mand how the curiosity, humility, and self-awareness we bring into each moment shape our perceptions, responses, relationships, and future.

Beau also introduces his new book, Becoming Evolvable, and the Evolvable.me platform, which uses neuroscience, psychology, and AI to help people see themselves...

In this mini episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry explains why better breathing doesn't need to be complicated. Learn how simple awareness, nasal breathing, slowing your breath, and gently lengthening your exhale can help calm an overwhelmed nervous system and shift your body out of fight-or-flight mode. Healing begins with the fundamentals and one intentional breath can be a powerful place to start.

You'll learn why more heat and longer sessions are not always better, how infrared exposure may influence circulation and cellular energy, and why it can be a valuable addition to the fundamentals of healing. Infrared therapy is not a replacement for movement, hydration, nutrition, sleep or medical care but it can help the body create a better internal environment for recovery.

In this episode, Dr. Perry chats with Connie Zack the co-founder of Sunlighten Saunas.

We discuss:

In this podcast episode, Dr. Perry talks about the power of working with the ears in relationship to cranial nerves and chronic pain. You will learn specific strategies you can do to help yourself heal. 

Cranial Nerve Mojo Workshop

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What if chronic pain is not something you have to manage forever, but something your brain and body can actually unlearn?

In this powerful episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with Dr. Howard Schubiner to discuss his new book, Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety and Depression. They explore how chronic pain can be driven by learned neural pathways, nervous system sensitization, stress, emotion, and the brain-body connection, not always by damaged tissue.

Dr. Schubiner shares a science-based, compassionate approach to helping people understand...

Dr. Perry talks with back pain expert, Dr. Eric Goodman creator of the Foundation training program. That program is my favorite one by far for helping people get out of pain and maintain spinal health. In this episode, we talk about the foot and fascia and back pain. 

Eric also talks about his new prodcut to help fascial unwinding https://trakgroundwear.com/

I have a pair of these and they are awesome. 

Strap in your brain and your feet 😀 and learn how to feel better. 

Get information about Foundation Training here...https...

When it comes to chronic pain everything matters, including scars. Why scars? Two big reasons...

What is the most important thing to know? Check the scars and work the scars. Hope to see you at the webinar. 

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Scar Education Video on Youtube

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This episode of the Stop Chasing Pain mini podcast Dr. Perry talks about the Vagus nerve, the most important nerve in the entire body to control inflammation. He shows you what causes vagus dysfunction, and where the Vagus nerve can have some issues. Also some things you can do to feel better. If you wanna learn more about how your body heals itself, this is a great show to listen to.

This episode we talk about the power of deep squat in healing, chronic pain and changing your life with guest Kasey Jackson. Talking about his amazing invention, the Hunkerin Stool that you can use on a daily basis to get into the position that you used to be able to get in as kids. This is a foundational posture for body function and performance. A fantastic episode that will change the way you look at healing pain and feeling good again. Going back down to the deep squat. 

Kasey was kind enough to offer our Stop Chasing P...

In this episode, Dr. Perry breaks down why rebounding is more than just jumping on a mini-trampoline. It is a simple, low-impact way to support lymphatic flow, circulation, balance, proprioception, and nervous system regulation.

The body depends on movement, pressure changes, and rhythmic loading to help move fluid through the lymphatic system. Rebounding creates a gentle up-and-down pumping effect that may help stimulate fluid movement, improve tissue oxygenation, and wake up sensory receptors throughout the body.

Dr. Perry also explains how rebounding can influence the brain-body connection by challenging balance, coordination, vestibular input, and foot-to-core...

The diaphragm is more than a breathing muscle—it is a pressure-regulating, nervous-system-modulating, fluid-moving powerhouse. When the diaphragm is restricted, weak, over-braced, or poorly coordinated, the body can compensate through the neck, shoulders, low back, pelvic floor, and jaw, creating chronic tension and pain patterns. Poor diaphragm function can alter rib motion, spinal stability, lymphatic drainage, venous return, vagus nerve signaling, and sympathetic "fight-or-flight" tone. In chronic pain, the question is not only "where does it hurt?" but also how is the body breathing, bracing, and managing pressure? That will impact pain. 

We always check the diaphragm.

On this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with Inna Segal, author of The Secret Language of the Body, for a fascinating and lighthearted conversation about what your symptoms may be trying to say. Have you been struggling to heal and nothing is helping? This podcast episode is for you.

We explore the idea that the body is always communicating through sensations, pain, fatigue, and emotional patterns—and that learning to listen can change the way we heal.

Inna shares insights from her book on the deeper messages behind physical dis...

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In this epdisode Dr. Perry talks about the brain cleaning system and how if it's clogged you will have brain fog and more pain. So clean your brain environment for optimal healing.

The glymphatic system is the brain's waste-clearance pathway, moving cerebrospinal fluid through spaces around blood vessels to wash through brain tissue and carry out inflammatory byproducts, metabolic waste, and excess proteins. That fluid then drains into the meningeal lymphatic vessels, which connect the brain to the body's broader lymphatic system, especially through lymph...

In this episode of the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, Dr. Perry sits down with Steeve Bradet of PEMF with Steeve for conversation on pulsed electromagnetic frequency therapy, how it is being used in the real world, and what people should understand before investing in PEMF technology. Steeve centers on practical, science-focused PEMF education with an emphasis on simplifying the technical side, and helping people make more informed decisions. Steeve has "no fluff" focus highlighting pain relief, better sleep, faster recovery, and lower stress.

Together, Dr. Perry and Steeve explore where PEMF may fit into a healing framework...

In this episode Dr. Perry talks about his experience with cellulitis and how doing lymphatic BIG 6®️ resets changed his life.

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Dr. Abby Kramer returns to the show to talk about the childrens health crisis in the world today. Kids are getting sicker sooner and experiencing many health related issues from fatty liver disease to malnutrition. Dr. Abby talks about things you can start doing today to make a kinds healthier. 

Dr. Abby is a chiropractor with a passion for helping people uncover the root cause of pain and dysfunction through a more holistic, whole-body approach. She combines clinical experience with a deep understanding of movement, recovery, and nervous system health to help patients heal, perform, and thrive.

In this mini podcast show Dr. Perry discusses the idea of SIMs and DIMs from Lorimer Moseley. Safety In Me or Danger In Me thinking processes whichh change pain. Pain is an output signal from the body not an input signal from the tissues. 

Learn how self talk can help you heal or hinder your progress.

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Dr. Perry and Luisa sit down with Morley Robbins—creator of the Root Cause Protocol and author of Cure Your Fatigue—for a practical and ellightening conversation on why so many people feel depleted, inflamed, and stuck in chronic symptoms.

This episode connects the dots between energy production, stress physiology, and the "hidden" drivers that keep pain patterns and chronic disease states switched on. Learn what to change first, and how to stop spinning your wheels with random supplements and overloaded advice.

You'll walk away with a map for recovery—especially if you deal with chroni...

In this episode Dr. Perry talks about the immune system and how it knows the difference between self and not self. Including how you think abou yourself. Putting up a mask to the world hiding who you really are can increase your immune system response. It knows the self. 

It's not just about toxins entering the body, its the toxins of the mind.

Change your story, change your immune system, change your pain, change your life. 

In this episode we speak with Dr. Brody Miller all about brains. We love brains and you will too by the end of this podcast. 

Dr. Brody Miller is a brain-rehab specialist and traumatic brain injury survivor who built his work around practical and tactical, habit-based approaches to recovery. He mixes neuroplasticity, lifestyle inputs, and day-to-day function to help brains heal. He emphasizes that healing isn't just "rest and time," but a structured process of recovery from brain trauma: understanding what the injured brain needs, then repeating small daily actions that rebuild capacity in thinking, sleep, mood, a...

In this episode, Dr. Perry gives you an easy daily breathing ritual that will calm your nervous system and help you heal. I also teach you the top three things that breathing changes within the body. Effective things don't have to be complicated, they simply need to be consistent.

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We always say the first step towards change is awareness. Because you can't change something until you become aware of it. Consider this podcast your awareness to check the tongue when you have chronic pain and can't get yourself out of fight or flight.

Take a listen for 10 minutes to this podcast episode and follow the link below to get some good exercises to make a difference for you. Thank you so much for listening. This can be a game changer for you.

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In this episode, I sit down with human-connection expert and broadcaster Riaz Meghji, author of Every Conversation Counts: The 5 Habits of Human Connection That Build Extraordinary Relationships. It's a great book that I highly recommend. I have the audio and hardcopy versions.

We unpack why so many people feel "connected" online—but still lonely in real life. We discuss loneliness and isolation as a modern "social pandemic," and ways to build trust and deepen relationships through everyday conversations.

Conversations influence your nervous system and your immune system which influences how you heal. This is a mis...

Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the first episode of 2026 Stop Chasing Pain Mini Podcast and our new reflection series. Going over most important things I've learned in 59 years of being on this Earth in relationship to health and healing.

I suffered through a lot so you don't have to. Learn from my mistakes and my journey. These are the basics and findamanetals that you do not want to miss. If you do healing is harder to do.

#1 on the List? Gotta listen to find out 😂

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Welcome to the show! We are taking a journey inot the energy side of healing.

Open your heart and your mind and your healing. 

Today, we're honored to introduce Pearly Montagu, a TED speaker and world-renowned healer with an extraordinary gift. Following a profound near-death experience, Pearly discovered her unique ability to see energetic trauma within the body in vivid colours & structures disrupting how physiology and biology occurs. 

Pearly also works with legal cases and corporate working with the energetic landscape around business deals, business relationships and legal cases removing what she sees in...