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Chronic Pain Treatment, Tree Planting, Nose Pickers

Sep 15, 2023

Discover a possible chronic pain treatment by blocking a specific protein. Learn about the challenges of tree-planting plans due to seedling shortages. Find out why nose pickers have a higher risk of contracting COVID-19. Explore the reasons behind nose-picking and its negative effects.

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Kimberly Gomez

Katie Kingwell

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Blocking an interaction in pain receptor nerves can turn down sensations of chronic pain without affecting normal pain and movement.

Efforts to plant a trillion trees are hindered by a shortage of seedlings, posing a challenge in combating climate change.

Deep dives

New Treatment for Chronic Pain

Researchers have discovered that by blocking an interaction in pain receptor nerves, the sensations of chronic pain can be turned down while keeping the normal sensation of pain and movement unchanged. This could be a game changer for the treatment of chronic pain, which affects some 50 million Americans.

Introduction

2min

Targeting the Nav 1.7 CRMP2 Interaction for Chronic Pain Relief

4min

Challenges of Planting a Trillion Trees and Shortage of Seedlings

2min

Tree Planting Goals and the Link Between Nose Picking and Coronavirus Risk

4min

Nose Picking: Why Do People Do It and How to Stop?

3min

Today, you’ll learn about a possible new treatment for chronic pain, a major obstacle to the world’s tree-planting plans, and some bad news for nose pickers.

Chronic Pain Treatment

“Identification and targeting of a unique Nav1.7 domain driving chronic pain.” by Kimberly Gomez, et al. 2023.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217800120
“Nav1.7 withholds its pain potential.” by Katie Kingwell. 2023.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-019-00065-0
“Chronic Pain Among Adults - United States, 2019 - 2021.” CDC. 2023.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7215a1.htm
“Prevalence of chronic pain among adults in the United States.” by R Jason Yong & Neil Bhattacharyya. 2022.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33990113/

Tree Planting

“Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by massive undersupply of seedlings.” by Joshua Brown. 2023.
“A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change.” by Peter W. Clark, et al. 2023.
“Trees Help Fight Climate Change.” Arbor Day Foundation. N.d.
“Benefits of Planting Trees.” Tree Advisory Board. N.D.

Nose Pickers

“Why Not to Pick Your Nose // Association between nose picking and SARS-Cov-2 incident, a cohort study in hospital healthcare workers.” by A.H. Ayesha Lavell, et al. 2023.
“Nose picking linked to higher risk of covid, study shows.” by Lindsey Bever. 2023.
“The Anatomy and Function of the Nasal Cavity.” by Kristin Hayes, RN. 2023.

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Chronic Pain Treatment, Tree Planting, Nose Pickers

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Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

New Treatment for Chronic Pain

Challenges in Tree Planting Efforts

Nose Picking and COVID Risk

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