Inflammation controls our lives and determines our health. As a top public health concern, the following facts offer some information on its nature and dangers.
- Persistent chronic low-grade inflammation can kill you slowly over time.
- You may feel a sense of good health and experience a silent chronic low-grade inflammation at the same time, which gradually destroys your body, like slow poison.
- The more fat cells accumulate in the body, especially those around the mid section, the higher the risk of chronic inflammation. Belly fat is dangerous.
- Sleep deprivation can lead to increased inflammation and turn your immune system against you.
- Chronic inflammation is one of the key drivers of aging: inflammaging, a lifetime exposure to inflammatory responses, is associated with mortality and age-related diseases, such as cancer. Inflammation accelerates aging. That includes skin aging.
- Exercise has an anti-inflammatory effect in the body: twenty to thirty minutes of daily moderate exercise is sufficient.
- Some culinary herbs and spices have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and can help reduce inflammation. Turmeric, ginger, rosemary and cayenne are effective anti-inflammatories.
- A significant portion of immune cells are found in the gut. Inflammatory diseases start in the gut with an autoimmune reaction which progresses into systemic inflammation.
- Persistent inflammation slows metabolism and leads to increased hunger.
- Lifestyle factors are a significant contribution to inflammation.
