Imagine someone with leprosy if you can. Hard to do for most of us as this disease has virtually been eliminated. Most people have no idea that the problem in leprosy is that people do not feel pain.

Because leprosy patients have an impaired sense of pain they lose their feedback loops. They could be sleeping at night and a rat could chew on their fingers and they would have no idea this was happening and not even wake up.

They could also get a pebble in their shoe and not have any pain and continue to walk until the pebble created a terrible ulcer in their foot that could get infected and cause them to have their foot amputated.

So although most of us would like to avoid pain and not experience it becomes quite clear that pain is a very valuable gift to us and really serves to keep us healthy.

That is why the drug model is so dangerous. It basically allows us to induce a form of chemical leprosy that blinds us to the underlying cause of the problem and the damage continues to occur because we are not using the pain to guide us to a permanent foundational solution. This goes for back pain, chest pain, knee pain etc.

                                                                                                               Dr. Mercola

The higher your blood sugar is the less able your are to tolerate pain, according to research at the University of Minnesota College of Medicine, published in the American Journal of Medicine 77:79. Since DIABETICS must be vigilant to keep their blood-sugar levels low, this is an especially important discovery for them. Generally, diabetics were found to have a lower tolerance for pain than non-diabetics.