Dr. Aneesh Singla

We actually don't fully understand how Tylenol works, even though it's been around for a long time, but we believe it works by a central mechanism.

A lot of people think that, you know, it's either ibuprofen or Tylenol, but believe it or not, you can actually take both together and they actually work on slightly different mechanisms.

Well, thanks, Mike.

Thanks so much for having me.

I'm really looking forward to talking to you about one of my favorite topics, which is pain.

You're so right, Mike.

I think that pain is unfortunately an unpleasant and uncomfortable sensation.

It can be associated with tissue damage.

And most of us try to avoid it in our lives.

But what's really fascinating about pain and as a practicing pain specialist is that over time, I've actually learned that pain actually helps us quite a bit.

And even though we try to avoid it, it can be a really powerful transformative event

our lives so first define it pain is what pain is an unpleasant uncomfortable sensory or emotional sensation that can be associated with tissue damage and that's you know sort of paraphrasing the formal definition of pain but you know quite frankly pain is just something that hurts

And it's unpleasant.

And even though we don't like it when we're going through it, oftentimes it's a signal that our body is sending us that something's wrong.

And there's something that needs to be done about that.

That's exactly right, Mike.

We all feel pain differently.

We all transmit pain the same way.

However, we all have different levels of what we call pain thresholds and pain sensitivities.

And the crux of it is that we also, when that signal gets to our brains, we also have different ways of interpreting that.