Stop Chasing Pain

Taking back control of your life from pain through the empowerment of education and knowledge.

SCP Podcast Episode 286: The Wild Journey Healing From Cancer with Dean Hall 09/13/2026

SCP Podcast Mini Series, Episode 55: Your Liver Makes 50% of Your Lymph — Here's Why That Matters 09/08/2026

SCP Podcast Episode 285: The New Brain Drain Discovery with Shalin Bhatt 08/30/2026

SCP Podcast Episode 285: The New Brain Drain Discovery with Shalin Bhatt 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 lymphatics, the venous system, and peripheral lymphatics may function as interconnected parts of a much larger brain-fluid network. In this episode, you'll discover: Why scientists once believed the central nervous system had no lymphatic drainage The discovery and renewed interest in meningeal lymphatic vessels What the glymphatic system does in the brain How cerebrospinal fluid moves through different brain compartments The connection between the brain's fluid systems and the deep cervical lymph nodes The Cerebral Lymph Hypothesis and its fountain model of interconnected fluid compartments Why fluid homeostasis may be critical for maintaining a healthy brain environment How impaired clearance could potentially relate to neuroinflammation and brain fog Why amyloid and tau accumulation raises important questions about waste removal—not simply waste production The relationship between the nervous, immune, vascular, and lymphatic systems Why sleep and circadian rhythms may be important for glymphatic function The emerging concept of looking at the brain through a neurofluid rather than purely neurocentric lens Why curiosity, systems thinking, and asking "what if we're missing something?" continue to drive discoveries in neuroscience This conversation is about looking beyond isolated structures and asking a bigger question: What happens when the systems responsible for moving fluid, maintaining homeostasis, and clearing waste can no longer keep up? If you're interested in brain health, lymphatics, neuroinflammation, chronic pain, brain fog, cerebrospinal fluid, or complex systems, this is an episode you won't want to miss. Subscribe to the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast for more conversations exploring the connections that are often overlooked when we focus only on where the symptoms are. #GlymphaticSystem #BrainHealth #LymphaticDrainage #Neuroinflammation #BrainFog #LymphaticSystem #StopChasingPain /episode/index/show/stopchasingpain/id/42611270

SCP Podcast Mini Series, Episode 54: The Law of Connection....Look Beyond Where It Hurts 08/24/2026

SCP Podcast Episode 284: Dr. David Rabin (A Simple Guide to Being Alive) 08/14/2026

SCP Podcast Episode 284: Dr. David Rabin (A Simple Guide to Being Alive) 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. You’ll discover how gentle touch and vibration may communicate safety to the nervous system, why the body responds differently to distress and growth-promoting “eustress,” and how changing your interpretation of a challenge can change your physiological response to it. This conversation offers a hopeful reminder: your nervous system is not broken—it may simply need consistent signals that help it feel safe enough to recover. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why soothing touch may activate vagal pathways involved in recovery How chronic fight-or-flight activation can affect pain and healing The difference between distress and beneficial eustress Why perceived safety matters to digestion, immunity, sleep, and repair How gentle vibration can influence nervous-system regulation Why mindset can help transform hardship into an opportunity for growth How simple, consistent practices can build greater resilience Why healing requires treating the whole human—not merely the painful body part If you’re living with chronic pain, inflammation, stress, poor sleep, or the feeling that your body is constantly on high alert, this episode will help you understand what may be happening beneath the symptoms. Listen now—and if this conversation helps you think differently about your body, subscribe to the Stop Chasing Pain Podcast, share the episode with someone who needs it, and join us as we learn to think systems, not symptoms. Use code SCP /episode/index/show/stopchasingpain/id/42441395