Finding the Cause of Inflammation

How Inflammation Affects Every Aspect of Your Health Inflammation controls our lives. Have you or a loved one dealt with pain, obesity, ADD/ADHD, peripheral neuropathy, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, migraines, thyroid issues, dental issues, or cancer? If you answered yes to any of these disorders you are dealing with

Your gut is made of an incredibly large and intricate semi-permeable lining. The surface area of your gut can cover two tennis courts when stretched out flat. Its degree of permeability fluctuates in response to a variety of chemically mediated conditions. For example when your cortisol is elevated due

The term inflammation rarely elicits a truly accurate image in the mind of someone unless they are experiencing it. Then it begins to make sense because of the pain and dysfunction associated with inflammation. The ability to be inflamed is absolutely necessary for normal repair processes to occur. It

The presence of inflammation is what makes most disease perceptible to an individual. It can and often does occur for years before it exists at levels sufficient to be apparent or clinically significant. How long it has been smouldering really determines the degree of severity of a disease and

Illustration from www.TxFibro.com – a private online neuro-metabolic physician study group The truth of the situation is that FOOD MATTERS. That’s right, it’s not just a movie (which by the way you should all watch!). Hyper-permeability of the gut, regardless of whether you can feel it or not is often a

Is inflammation good or bad? Inflammation’s arsenal is packed with powerful weapons. “Inflammation is the body’s response to microbial, autoimmune, metabolic or physical insults, including burns and physical trauma”, said Hawiger, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Louise B. McGavock Professor. White blood cells, including granulocytes and macrophages, are the “first responders”

Since inflammation is commonly mediated by the gut it is a logical starting point in the evaluation process.  There are seven common areas that should be considered when looking at causative factors for gastrointestinal dysfunction that create the environment for chronic inflammation. They are listed below along with key

The fact that your immune system drives the inflammatory process in disease is well established. Unfortunately, Western medicine offers little in the way of actual answers as to managing or overcoming the Autoimmune process. The typical approach to therapy is generally to suppress the immune response with Immune suppressive agents or