September 12, 2021: Inflammation

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Inflammation is your body's natural response to protect itself. This happens for lots of reasons. This week, we’re going to talk about the two types of inflammation - good and bad.

Good Inflammation

The good type of inflammation is the one we’re all familiar with. It is the inflammation that occurs when you hurt yourself, like cutting your finger or spraining your ankle. You can see and feel it, like when your ankle swells up. We want and need this type of inflammatory response to happen in the body in order to heal.

Bad Inflammation

The other type of inflammation is the one that we may not even know is there, but has much more severe consequences than some swelling or a bruise. When our bodies can no longer regulate inflammation, we have a problem!

Low-grade chronic inflammation that you can’t see or feel leads to every one of the major chronic diseases, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and more. For example, in Alzheimer's, chronic inflammation literally destroys brain cells.

The question is: is the flame inside of you barely staying lit or is it a full on raging forest fire?

Sources of Inflammation

Inflammation comes from the sugar we eat, high doses of unhealthy oils and fats in our diet (omegas 6 and 9 vs. omega 3), undiagnosed food allergies/sensitivities, lack of exercise, chronic stress, hidden infections, and our fat cells.

Turn Down the Fire

There are many prescription and over-the-counter drugs that you can take to decrease inflammation. Often, taking these medications helps a lot with the symptoms of chronic inflammation (yay!(, but the root cause of the problem is NOT addressed (oh.). Unless you get to the root of where the inflammation is coming from, you have simply postponed the inevitable. The fire is still there; it is just contained.

One of the most important actions you can take is to eliminate all inflammatory foods (sugar, gluten, dairy, corn, soy) from your diet and notice how you feel, how you look, how you perform, and what happens to those nagging symptoms you were experiencing. Lifestyle factors, such as appropriate exercise, proper restorative sleep, managing stress levels, engaging in positive interactions with others, and keeping a positive attitude, will all aid in cooling the inflammatory response in your body.

Next Sunday, we’ll talk about magnesium deficiency.

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I hope you have a wonderful week,

Kelly

Kelly Morgan, Ph.D.

Tsirona - www.tsirona.com

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