The Pain and Performance Podcast
Scientifically Hacking: Health, Healing, Pain, Nutrition, and Longevity. We'll dive into all the exact habits, technology and recommendations you can use to optimize health, healing and life! Learn how I use and apply these everyday in my Pain Specialty Practice to improve my patient's lives, speed their healing, and increase longevity. On the podcast, I interview the scientist, doctors, creators and even patients on topics like: -Health Optimization-Supercharge Healing and Recovery-Sleep Enhancements Techniques-Daily Routines and Tactics for the Optimized Life-Research on Technology, Treatments, Supplements and more.-Case Review - We interview and discuss difficulty pain or health cases and how someone improved, healed and got back to living!-Mindset Improvements-Wholistic Living -Much, Much More!
Episodes
212 episodes
Are Collagen Supplements Worth It? New Research Explained
Collagen has become one of the most popular supplements in the world, but there is still confusion about what it actually does. In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down the latest research on collagen s...
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Why Comfort Is Stealing Your Freedom and Your Health
Many people believe that living healthy means restriction while unhealthy habits represent freedom. In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines challenges that idea and explains why the opposite is often true. He expl...
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Why Your Habits Fail (And How Journaling Fixes It)
Trying to change your habits without changing your identity is one of the biggest reasons transformation fails. In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines explores how journaling can become a powerful tool for mental...
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Can Nutrition Help Alzheimer’s and MS? What This Research Discovered
In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines sits down with nutrition researcher Dr. John Lewis to discuss groundbreaking research on polysaccharides derived from aloe vera and rice bran. Dr. Lewis shares how his early...
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How to Prevent Heart Disease Before It Starts | VO2 Max, Testing, and Exercise
Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death, yet it rarely develops overnight. In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines discusses why cardiovascular disease builds gradually over time and how early tes...
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Q&A on Nerve Pain, Brain Health, Fasting, and Hormones (Tea with Dr. D)
In this episode of Tea with Dr. D, Dr. Derrick Hines answers a variety of health questions from the community, covering topics ranging from nerve pain and regenerative therapies to brain health, fasting protocols, and cortisol balance. The conv...
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How to Reset Your Cortisol Cycle
Cortisol often gets blamed for stress and poor health, but the real problem is not cortisol itself. It is when cortisol shows up at the wrong time of day. In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines explains the natural cortisol rhythm, why it should pe...
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How to Identify Nerve Entrapment
Not all pain comes from muscles or joints. In many cases, the real source is a trapped or irritated nerve. In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines explains how to recognize the difference between nerve entrapment and typical musculoskeletal pain. He...
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14:03
What Most People Get Wrong About Regenerative Therapy
Many people think regenerative therapy means jumping straight to stem cells. In reality, healing follows a hierarchy. From natural cell regeneration to catalyzed therapies, regenerative therapeutics like PRP and peptides, and finally cell-based...
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How Visualizing Movements Could Improve Healing
In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down the consistent patterns he sees in people who heal well: they protect their sleep, keep moving (even if modified), track their daily activity, focus on progress instead of pain, stay consistent wit...
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You’re Exercising Wrong (And It’s Causing Pain)
In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines sits down with Coach Tyler Bram to unpack what most people get wrong about fitness, rehab, and long-term movement health. They explore why fear and insecurity often drive people into exercise, how injuries can...
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My Favorite First Step in Creating a Healing Environment: The Morning Routine
In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines shares one of the simplest ways to create a healing environment in your body before the day even begins. He breaks down the SHINE routine, a practical morning framework designed to improve energy, hormone bala...
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5 Steps to Perfecting the Cold Shower
Cold exposure is one of the simplest tools to improve discipline, resilience, and immune function, but most people quit because they don’t know how to do it properly. In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down his exact step-by-step cold sh...
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What Really Happens When You Fast?
Fasting is not just about weight loss. In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down what actually happens inside your body when you stop eating. He explains the metabolic switch from glucose to fat, the rise in ketones, and why hitting the 72...
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9:47
What My Patients Who Heal The Fastest Do Differently Than Everyone Else
In this episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down the consistent patterns he sees in people who heal well: they protect their sleep, keep moving (even if modified), track their daily activity, focus on progress instead of pain, stay consistent wit...
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14:54
The One Thing Many Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Patients Have in Common
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down one of the most consistent findings in neurodegenerative research: low glutathione levels in the brain are strongly associated with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.Rather than focu...
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Lessons From 200 Episodes of The Pain and Performance Podcast
Join me for a very special episode of the Pain & Performance Podcast...Episode 200!!! This has been an amazing journey with ups and downs but I can't explain how thankful I am for you and this community. Y'all are amazing. On this episode I...
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The Daily Choices That Decide How Well You Age
In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines sits down with coach, Olympic weightlifter, and author Jerzy Gregorek to discuss why long-term health depends less on motivation and more on daily discipline.The con...
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1:34:37
The Four Keys to Physical Health
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down the four foundational pillars that determine long-term physical health and performance. Instead of chasing a single “magic fix,” this episode explains why true health is built by balancing mul...
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14:36
Why Most Health Goals Fail
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines explains why most health goals don’t fail because of lack of motivation, but because people rely on motivation instead of systems and identity.This conversation reframes goal setting away from wil...
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What Is Regenerative Therapy? (and how it can change your healing)
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down what regenerative therapy actually means and why most injuries never fully heal with traditional, scar-based approaches.This episode explains the difference between scar tissue repair a...
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13:40
Consistency Isn't Perfection, It's Identity
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down why real consistency has nothing to do with perfection or constant motivation, and everything to do with identity.This episode explains how habits stick when they become part of who yo...
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9:50
Why Self Confidence Matter More Than Self Belief
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down how cold exposure can be used as a powerful tool to strengthen immune function, especially during flu season.This episode explains why cold exposure acts like exercise for your immune ...
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7:44
How Cold Exposure Trains Your Immune System
In this mini episode, Dr. Derrick Hines breaks down how cold exposure can be used as a powerful tool to strengthen immune function, especially during flu season.This episode explains why cold exposure acts like exercise for your immune ...
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Can Your Sleep Position Improve Your Health?
In this episode of the Pain and Performance Podcast, Dr. Derrick Hines sits down with Dr. Peter Martone to explore why sleep problems are rarely just about sleep. They break down how pain, nervous system regulation, and body alignment all influ...
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