Inflammation is worse than I thought.

JeromeBarry1

https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-diet

AnnPT77

Interesting, thanks!

I need to read some of the underlying research.

mkculs13

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Interesting, thanks!

I need to read some of the underlying research.

Great; I'm counting on folks with an appropriate background to digest the details.

yirara

Wow, interesting. I'm following this.

quatermore

Thank you for posting this extremely interesting article.

yirara

I'm kind of worried that quack-fans will read this and say: see, told you. All your diseases are due to inflammation. Now you need a detox. Oh, and there are plaques in the body after all. Need moar detox!

Maxxitt

It's been a fascinating research area I've been following along from the cheap seats along the sidelines for about a decade and a half.

OooohToast

There has been some research here in the UK about how sugar consumption aggravates asthma symptoms by creating an inflammatory response - I know myself that mine is worse after a lot (and I mean a lot) of sugar. Is this inflammation causal or an aggravating factor ? This article states that “Chronic inflammation is uniformly damaging and is absolutely causal to the process, because if you interfere with it, you can reverse the pathology.” I still have asthma, I just dont have these specific symptoms if I manage my sugar consumption.

Mezzie1024

This was an interesting read. Thanks!

liz0269

That was fascinating. I have rheumatoid arthritis. Exercise is known to greatly improve symptoms - as is omega-3. Now I know why. I already try to exercise 2 hours a day. Now I will focus more on adding omega-3 to my diet. Thank you for sharing.

SummerSkier

Low level chronic inflammation is an interesting idea. If you have ever had a significant injury (like say a back compression fracture) which takes months to heal you know that low level pain which eventually just you don't even realize is there. I can specifically remember taking some pain meds one time for it and thinking to myself. WOW. I didn't even know it was STILL there but the absence of it was remarkable.

yirara

liz0269 wrote: »

That was fascinating. I have rheumatoid arthritis. Exercise is known to greatly improve symptoms - as is omega-3. Now I know why. I already try to exercise 2 hours a day. Now I will focus more on adding omega-3 to my diet. Thank you for sharing.

Yeah, I might start as well. There's a lot of diabetes and coronary heart disease on my father's side of the family and all sorts of autoimmune disorders on my mom's side. I got the ai ones already and would rather stay with looks, rather than diseases from my dad to be honest.