Inflammation isn't Something to Eliminate. It's Something to Regulate

If inflammation is designed to heal us, why does it begin hurting us as we age? Why does so many of us feel like our bodies are fighting a battle even when we're not sick? Maybe your joint sick. Maybe your brain feels foggy. Maybe you're tired all the time. You can't lose weight like you used to. Maybe your blood work keeps showing signs of inflammation.

even though you're doing quote all the right things. Well at first glance those problems don't seem connected. One affects your brain, another affects your metabolism, another affects your heart or your joints. But what if they're all being driven by the same underlying biological process? Over the last decade, scientists have discovered many of these seemingly unrelated conditions. powerful part of your immune system. Think of it as your body's master inflammation switch. Its job is to check nature.

To protect you. To coordinate your body response to injury or infection, and when it's working properly, it's one of the reasons you survive. But when that switch stays activated for too long. The very system designed to protect you can begin working against you. And researchers believe that this pathway plays an important role in many of the chronic diseases associated with aging from metabolic dysfunction and heart disease. to neurodegener diseases and arthritis.

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