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They don't explain what is inflamation. Are bone fractures relevant to inflamation? Chronic asthma? Surgery? Does eating less impact inflamation?

by tajen 11y ago

mindcrime 11y ago
Inflammation is, under ordinary circumstances, part of how your body reacts to damage to itself in one area or another. When it's a short-term traumatic injury you see it as, say, a swollen ankle. Chronic inflammation is different, but if I understand correctly, involves the presence of the same molecules in your blood. I'm not sure anybody completely understands what causes chronic inflammation or exactly how it drives diabetes, heart-disease, etc., but there's a lot of evidence for this. OTOH, there is quite a bit of information on how to lower inflammation, and a lot of it involves changes to your diet. It's also pretty easy to measure inflammation. To some extent, when you have a blood lipid profile done, your triglyceride count correlates positively with inflammation. There's a also a separate, more specific test you can have done, which tests for something called high sensitivity c-Reactive Protein. If you have high triglycerides and/or high cRP, then you probably have some level of chronic inflammation. How to lower it? Well, some people argue that triglyceride level (and inflammation) directly correlate with carbohydrate intake. These people advocate something like the ketogenic diet to lower inflammation. There are also specific foods / supplements which are known to be anti-inflammatories. Offhand I can think of fish / fish-oil, cherries / cherry-extract, cayenne pepper, and, IIRC, turmeric. Possibly garlic as well, but I'm a little fuzzy on that. Google "anti inflammatory foods" or something like that and you can find a list easily enough. Also, a good book that I recommend is "Cholesterol Clarity" by Jimmy Moore and Dr. Eric C. Westman. It goes into some of this stuff. See also: http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/10/why-you-should-pay-attention-to-chronic-inflammation/ http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/10/why-you-should-pay...
- karmakaze 11y ago
  Great description. I didn't know about the diet angle. I was just prescribed anti-inflammatory meds for pinched nerves and now I can alter my diet to help.

They don't explain what is inflamation. Are bone fractures relevant to inflamation? Chronic asthma? Surgery? Does eating less impact inflamation?

by tajen 11y ago

They don't explain what is inflamation. Are bone fractures relevant to inflamation? Chronic asthma? Surgery? Does eating less impact inflamation?

mindcrime 11y ago

Inflammation is, under ordinary circumstances, part of how your body reacts to damage to itself in one area or another. When it's a short-term traumatic injury you see it as, say, a swollen ankle. Chronic inflammation is different, but if I understand correctly, involves the presence of the same molecules in your blood. I'm not sure anybody completely understands what causes chronic inflammation or exactly how it drives diabetes, heart-disease, etc., but there's a lot of evidence for this. OTOH, there is quite a bit of information on how to lower inflammation, and a lot of it involves changes to your diet. It's also pretty easy to measure inflammation. To some extent, when you have a blood lipid profile done, your triglyceride count correlates positively with inflammation. There's a also a separate, more specific test you can have done, which tests for something called high sensitivity c-Reactive Protein. If you have high triglycerides and/or high cRP, then you probably have some level of chronic inflammation. How to lower it? Well, some people argue that triglyceride level (and inflammation) directly correlate with carbohydrate intake. These people advocate something like the ketogenic diet to lower inflammation. There are also specific foods / supplements which are known to be anti-inflammatories. Offhand I can think of fish / fish-oil, cherries / cherry-extract, cayenne pepper, and, IIRC, turmeric. Possibly garlic as well, but I'm a little fuzzy on that. Google "anti inflammatory foods" or something like that and you can find a list easily enough. Also, a good book that I recommend is "Cholesterol Clarity" by Jimmy Moore and Dr. Eric C. Westman. It goes into some of this stuff. See also: http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/10/why-you-should-pay-attention-to-chronic-inflammation/ http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2014/10/why-you-should-pay...

karmakaze 11y ago
Great description. I didn't know about the diet angle. I was just prescribed anti-inflammatory meds for pinched nerves and now I can alter my diet to help.