Episode 111: How Body Alignment Can End Back Pain with Mark Theismeyer Hook
Release Date: 11/03/2025
Episode 121: Microcurrent 101: What Makes It Work?
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Microcurrent therapy has been used for decades, yet it’s still widely misunderstood. In this episode of the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob Vanbergen breaks down what microcurrent actually is, how it works inside the body, and why something so subtle can create meaningful change. You’ll learn why the body is not only chemical but electrical, how microcurrent supports cellular communication and energy production, and why healing doesn’t need to feel intense to be effective. Dr. Rob also clears up common myths around sensation, intensity, and safety, explaining why consistency and...
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Episode 120: What Is Bioenergetics? A Layperson’s Guide
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Your body runs on energy, and nearly every aspect of your health depends on how well that energy is created, distributed, and conserved. In this episode of the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob Vanbergen breaks down bioenergetics in a clear, grounded way and explains why fatigue, chronic pain, slow healing, and inflammation often aren’t about effort or willpower, but about energy inefficiency within the body. Dr. Rob explores how mitochondria, the nervous system, inflammation, stress, and environmental factors all influence your body’s “energy economy,” and why many people feel...
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Episode 119: New Year, New You: Setting Healing Intentions
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The start of a new year often comes with pressure to change, fix, or push harder. In this episode of the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob Vanbergen offers a different perspective, one rooted in compassion, realism, and nervous system health. Rather than focusing on rigid resolutions, he explores how healing intentions create sustainable progress by working with the body instead of against it. Dr. Rob explains why capacity matters more than effort, how intentions influence the nervous system, and why true healing happens when we prioritize safety, consistency, and self-trust. This episode...
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Episode 118: Best of Season 4: Listener Favorites Compilation
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Closing out 2025 with a Season 4 highlights podcast episode. In this episode, Dr. Rob revisits some of the most meaningful conversations from the past few months, pulling together key insights on healing, microcurrent therapy, body alignment, nervous system regulation, and the power of healing together. You’ll hear selected moments from: Ask Dr. Rob: Reset Protocol FAQs & Fall Wellness Tips Inside the Avazzia Blue Device: Microcurrent Science Simplified Season 4 Kickoff: Why Healing Together Matters How Body Alignment Can End Back Pain with Mark Theismeyer Hook Whether you’re...
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Episode 117: Future of Healing: What’s Next for PFFL in 2026
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In this final episode of the year, Dr. Rob Vanbergen pulls back the curtain on what’s coming next for Pain Free for Life as we move into 2026. This episode is about more than announcements. It’s about a shift in how healing is delivered, accessed, and lived day to day. After years of refining protocols, deepening clinical education, and supporting practitioners and home users, the focus is now on integration, accessibility, and empowerment. Dr. Rob shares what’s ahead, including new technology designed to bridge the gap between professional-grade systems and everyday use, expanded...
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Episode 116: Holiday Healing Habits: How to Stay Balanced
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In this holiday podcast episode, Dr. Rob answers the real questions that come up every year: how to stay calm when stress runs high, how to protect your sleep while traveling or hosting, what to do when your routine gets thrown off, and how to support immunity when crowds and winter bugs are everywhere. He shares simple, practical tools you can actually follow in a busy season, including breathwork to support the vagus nerve, microcurrent strategies for nervous system regulation, and “minimum effective” habits that keep your system steady without perfection. You’ll also hear tips for...
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Episode 115: Supporting Loved Ones in Pain: A Family Guide
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Family plays a bigger role in healing than most people realize. In this episode, Dr. Rob explores how the people closest to us can either reduce stress in the nervous system or unintentionally make pain worse—and why even small shifts in communication, routine, and understanding can completely change the healing environment at home. You’ll learn the emotional reality of living with chronic pain, what support actually looks like, the common behaviors that accidentally increase symptoms, and the simple ways families can become part of the healing process instead of another source of...
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Episode 114: Gratitude & Healing: Why Mindset Matters
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In this episode of the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob Vanbergen explores one of the most underrated forces in long-term healing: gratitude. We often look to microcurrent therapy, nutrition, and energy medicine as the main drivers of change, but the truth is the emotional state behind your healing plays just as important of a role. Dr. Rob breaks down the biology of gratitude and explains how it calms the nervous system, lowers inflammation, supports immune function, and shifts the body into a repair state. You’ll learn how emotional frequency influences physical outcomes, how gratitude...
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Episode 113: Ask Dr. Rob: Reset Protocol FAQs & Fall Wellness Tips
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This week on the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob dives into your most-asked questions about microcurrent therapy. He breaks down the real difference between vagus-nerve frequencies used in clinical research and the ones used in microcurrent healing, why belly-button scarring can linger for decades, what sets Avazzia devices apart from frequency-specific microcurrent, and how to approach complex cases like vertigo, infertility, MS, anxiety, and more. Dr. Rob also shares practical guidance on cranial-nerve stimulation, wound-healing settings, the role of stress, and how to reset the body...
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Episode 112: Inside the Avazzia Blue Device: Microcurrent Science Simplified
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In this episode of the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob Vanbergen takes you inside one of his favorite tools in microcurrent therapy: the Avazia Blue device. If you’ve ever wondered how a small, two-button device can create meaningful change in the body, this deep dive is for you. Dr. Rob breaks down how the Avazia Blue taps into your body’s natural electricity to restore communication, support the fascia network, neutralize scar tissue, and reduce pain. He explains why fascia is more than just structural support, how it functions as an electrical highway, and what happens when it...
info_outlineIn this episode of the Pain Free for Life Podcast, Dr. Rob Vanbergen welcomes Mark, founder of Align Athlete, to explore how alignment, movement, and muscle activation play critical roles in chronic pain recovery. Mark shares his personal journey from falling off a roof in college to enduring eight years of back pain—and how he discovered that restoring proper body alignment was the key to lasting relief.
Together, Dr. Rob and Mark discuss the deep connection between structural balance and the Body Electric, how pelvic misalignment impacts nerve flow, and why so many people unknowingly live with alignment-related pain. They also dive into Mark’s innovative tool, the Glute Activator, designed to help realign the sacrum and restore muscle function safely and effectively at home.
Thank you so much for joining us today and listening to the Pain Free for Life podcast. For more information about Dr. Rob Vanbergen and how you can take steps to becoming pain free for life, visit the Pain Free for Life website: https://painfreeforlife.com/ & https://painfreeforlife.com/podcast/