Dr. Mark Hyman

And that's important initially to kind of start the healing process.

But if my feet stay swollen for too long, it can't actually repair.

So I've been using these Normatec boots.

They're essentially...

lymphatic drainage boots and i put them on for a half an hour a day and it squeezes all the fluid out of my legs and out of my feet and gets rid of it it's quite amazing and in the days i've been using it my feet have just dramatically reduced by probably 70 80 percent swelling so you want to keep the swelling down as the healing process goes on and if you have too much inflammation it's just going to delay the healing so you can do heat and ice back and forth sometimes early on you want to do ice later on you can do heat movement so exercise pumping with muscles helps

Omega-3 fats are great to help with lowering inflammation.

Turmeric, which is a powerful anti-inflammatory herb that you can use.

You can use it in a spice or you can take curcumin as a supplement.

Ginger, I use a lot of ginger in cooking.

Breath work also helps lower stress response.

Core dissolving your stress doesn't allow you to heal.

Actually makes your tissues break down.

You don't want to use anti-inflammatory drugs too much because they can slow some of the remodeling of the tissue.

So in acute pain, you can use them, but I would not stay too much on things like Advil or Aleve or ibuprofen.

So we want to, you know, have a little inflammation, but not too much.

It's kind of like Goldilocks.

The next is really key.

And by the way, for my healing and just kind of to keep you up to date, I use a lot of things that reduce inflammation on the dietary stuff, the supplements, but also I use, for example, ice, ice, ice plunges, which are no fun.

They actually work.

And they lower inflammation.