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April 17, 2012

Stop being a wimp! Pain IS good for you

The well-known phrase, ‘no pain, no gain’ is more true than we ever thought.

Every year we spend millions of pounds trying to save ourselves from feeling pain, be it a throbbing headache or the excruciating agony of acute illnesses such as heart attacks and angina.

But scientists are realising how the dreaded sensation actually plays a crucial role in keeping us alive, by setting off hidden healing processes when we suffer heart attacks, and preventing chronic diseases such as arthritis breaking out.

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