Inflammation: 6 Ways to Reduce Its Damage to Your Body
When it comes to dealing with or combatting most chronic diseases, inflammation can be a big DEAL. And this can become the reason that disease actually starts.
Inflammation is our body’s way to protect, it is a defense against any injury or sickness, to heal itself. So, yes, we always need some of this acute inflammation reaction, but it can get “out of control” and become a chronic reaction, this happens quite frequently.
Acute inflammation is temporary, it goes away and you never feel a change. Repeated inflammation is chronic, it keeps coming, and is retriggered constantly by stressors to your body, resulting in aches, pains, and many types of disease.
Of course, you should also check with your doctor and have your pain checked out when it continues and becomes worse.
6 Ways to Reduce Inflammation Damage to Your Body
- Drink plenty of clean water. Try making teas with herbs, spices, or green teas. I recommend using grated ginger or turmeric with parsley, basil, or cilantro to reduce inflammation.
- Reduce inflammatory foods, like white flour, white sugars, trans fats, refined carbohydrates, and artificial sweeteners. Eat more anti-inflammatory foods like whole plants, Omega 3 fatty acids, and …. Try broccoli, kale, nuts, and seeds.
- If you are allergic or sensitive to certain foods, more commonly, corn, peanuts, or gluten then stay off these as much as possible, to control your inflammation levels.
- Reduce your toxic load. This means chemicals, pesticides, cleaning products, skin products, and even polluted air in the environment; can all have toxic chemicals. Decrease your processed and pre-packaged foods that contain many toxic additives.
- Exercise helps release some of these toxins, and is beneficial to your organs and muscles. It does not have to be hard aerobics and it can be simple yoga or walking to stretching.
- The most important is to decrease your stress, it triggers more inflammation and you need to control the damage to your arteries, veins, organs, and joints to stop those chances of chronic illnesses.
Common symptoms of inflammation are an increase in fatigue, pain, depression, gastrointestinal complaints, weight gain or loss, and persistent infections that will not clear up.
Be aware that many of these symptoms are also found in many other diseases too.
References:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/anti-inflammatory-diet-101#what-it-is
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-long-it-takes-to-heal-inflammation
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21660-inflammation
Cindy Burrows
10-7-22
