Nutrition, Pain and Especially Pelvic Pain, Part 1

Our relationship with food is complex and individual. Even the relationship between food and pain is not linear, but it is fascinating. It would be impossible to anticipate the nutritional status or degree of food knowledge of every reader, so it’s in this spirit that write this post. Not every concept will apply, but there will hopefully be enough meat on the bone for everyone. 

In the interest of time, the unifying theme is that diet is one the key drivers of pain, pelvic and otherwise, and can be a pivotal element in its treatment. 

There has been a steady climb in the awareness of the importance of nutrition since I began my career. This has been witnessed in the rise of the now ubiquitous gastropub, the ability to purchase a salad in parts of the country that hitherto considered anything beyond iceberg lettuce exotic and that stratospheric rise in the number of nutrition experts on social media, who’s chief qualification often appears to be a natural propensity for being slim. 

There was a time when I led my first weight loss groups, circa 2003, that dispensing knowledge such as the benefit of eliminating sugary sodas from your diet was considered sage wisdom. We have come well beyond that in many circles, yet since then obesity has been on a steady climb, and severe obesity has doubled.