{"podcast":{"title":"Home of Healthspan","slug":"home-of-healthspan-7069559","podcast_index_feed_id":7069559,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/4DQ53tnR.rss","website_url":"https://alively.com/","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/92527a6c-2cfc-445d-957e-2b2555da52d7.jpg","author":"a@alively.com","episode_count":109,"summary":"We profile health and wellness role models, sharing the tools, practices, and routines they use to help you live healthier, longer. Since 1950, the average lifespan has extended by 11 years, but our healthspan hasn’t kept up. We've been pursuing living longer without considering how to make those extra years vibrant and fulfilling. After all, 30 plus years of old age is a long time to spend slowly falling apart. And that's where Home of Healthspan comes in. Host Andrew McConnell interviews healthspan role models to help guide listeners through the 5 Pillars of Healthspan: * Fitness * Nutrition, * Sleep and recovery, * Stress management and Mindset, * And Social connection & purpose. All so you can not only extend your years, but make them vibrantly healthy from start to finish. This is your guide to extending your healthspan, Making sure you live Alively day today, every day, for all of your days.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T00:17:40.971505+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559"},"episode":{"title":"How to Manage Chronic Pain with Dr. Andrea Furlan - E93","slug":"how-to-manage-chronic-pain-with-dr-andrea-furlan-e93","published_at":"2026-04-06T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/how-to-manage-chronic-pain-with-dr-andrea-furlan-e93","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/ivRGD1c6","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/69ccedf0748cf53bc579c2f3/size/49300226/audio-files/65c0df5c2662b52ae2ab1737/51d0b83c-784d-468a-8c62-1e379fb28b3e.mp3","summary":"Chronic pain can steal your energy, your motivation, and even your sense of control over your own life. The frustration grows when medication only dulls the edge or when pain resurfaces without a clear physical cause. Searching for answers, many are trapped in a cycle of sleepless nights, stalled routines, and endless appointments that cost time and money but bring little relief. In this episode, we break down why your pain might not be just in your bod, and how proven daily actions and brain retraining can help you finally reset. You'll learn why real, lasting recovery goes far beyond prescriptions, the role of subconscious and psychological factors in pain, and tips for managing chronic pain. Andrea Furlan is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, She is Senior Scientist at UHN\"s KITE Institute, and Medical Lead of the Rehabilitation Pain Service at UHN's Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. She is chair of ECHO Ontario chronic pain and opioid stewardship at UHN and she is a social media influencer with a YouTube channel \"Let's Talk About Pain\". She is the author of two books for people with chronic pain. \"And so if you're in pain, you're having a hard time sleeping. If you're having a hard time sleeping, you're in more pain and it's this terrible cycle that you're in.\" - Dr. Andrea Furlan In this episode you will learn: * Why chronic pain is not just a signal from an injury, but a complex issue shaped by the brain and body. * How lifestyle changes, like movement, sleep, and social ties, play a big role in easing pain. * Why pills may help for short-term pain but often fail for chronic pain, and when to use them. * The link between stress, worry, and pain, and how your mind can sh…","meta_description":"Chronic pain can steal your energy, your motivation, and even your sense of control over your own life. The frustration grows when medication only dulls t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2046,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/home-of-healthspan-7069559/episodes/how-to-manage-chronic-pain-with-dr-andrea-furlan-e93/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/home-of-healthspan-7069559/how-to-manage-chronic-pain-with-dr-andrea-furlan-e93.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}