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If you want to have an "anti-inflammatory" response, then try to maximize your fiber intake from a wide variety of plants. This will increase the quality of yo
by boplicity 5y ago
If you want to have an "anti-inflammatory" response, then try to maximize your fiber intake from a wide variety of plants.
This will increase the quality of your microbiome -- which in turn, will produce substances that are anti-inflammatory.
- johnyzee 5y ago"All disease begins in the gut" -- Hippocrates It seems we just keep discovering more effects of the microbiome on health. I heard about this anti-inflammation effect just yesterday. I think it was explained as gram negative bacteria overgrowth in the gut (due to a bad bacterial balance). Those bacteria have a hard 'shell' that triggers a potent immune response (with inflammation) when present in the blood stream, which they enter from the small intestine. So I think your advice to maximize fiber intake is sound. This feeds gut bacteria (unlike most other food which is broken down before reaching the small intestine). Another intervention would be fermented foods.
- consumer451 5y agoJumping in to share my anti-inflammatory story. I used to have a limp for the first 2-3 hours of the day due to very early onset arthritis at 30 in my ankle. Around 38 I discovered that minimizing by nightshade intake nearly "cured" me of the problem. What a huge change in quality of life. I still eat some potato, tomato, and eggplant - but I never make or order nightshades on purpose.