Chronic Inflammation
When inflammation persists in the body or occurs in healthy tissue, it’s damaging. It can contribute to further injury and a variety of diseases. This chronic inflammation is a contributing factor, experts say, to more than half of deaths worldwide. And it could be at least partially the reason you’re lethargic, in pain, or constantly feeling under the weather.
Chronic Inflammation is associated with a long list of diseases, including:
Rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases
Cardiovascular diseases, including high blood pressure and heart disease
Inflammatory bowel disease and other GI disorders
Lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Depression and other mental health issues
Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic ailments
Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative problems
Some cancers
What does chronic inflammation look like in a patient? Often, patients who have it are overweight, tired, have weight gain they can’t shed, hair loss and sleep issues, or some combination. While people often ignore these things, ‘they are signs our system is out of balance.
Inflammation Triggers
Ditch the ultra-processed food. That’s basically all the foods with ingredients you can’t pronounce and don’t know what they are.
Reduce stress.
Get enough sleep.
Exercise.
You have to change your lifestyle. There’s no one fix for everyone. You have to identify your own triggers. Control and manage a high-stress lifestyle that can make levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, sky high, making it difficult to lose weight and in turn perhaps triggering obesity-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
The whole-body approach to reducing inflammation is crucial. No matter if it is genetic; your genes are just the backdrop and lifestyle choices are important—not just diet, but sleep and stress reduction. With lifestyle intervention, you are targeting everything.
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