Do you know if you are experiencing internal or external CHRONIC inflammation?
What are common symptoms of Chronic Inflammation?
- Body pain, arthralgia, myalgia.
- Chronic fatigue and insomnia.
- Depression, anxiety and mood disorders.
- Gastrointestinal complications like constipation, diarrhea, and acid reflux.
- Weight gain or weight loss.
- Frequent infections.
- Chronic Inflammation – StatPearls – NCBI Bookshelfwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › books › NBK493173
How and WHY do we get CHRONIC inflammation?
Let’s start with WHAT is INFLAMMATION
What is ACUTE vs. CHRONIC Inflammation?
Inflammation refers to your body’s process of fighting against things that harm it, such as infections, injuries, and toxins, in an attempt to heal itself.
When something damages your cells, your body releases chemicals that trigger a response from your immune system.
This response includes the release of antibodies and proteins, as well as increased blood flow to the damaged area.
The whole process usually lasts for a few hours or days in the case of acute inflammation.
Chronic inflammation happens when this response lingers, leaving your body in a constant state of alert.
Over time, chronic inflammation may have a negative impact on your tissues and organs.
Some researchTrusted Source suggests that chronic inflammation could also play a role in a range of conditions, from cancer to asthma.
https://www.healthline.com/health/chronic-inflammation
What is ACUTE inflammation?
- How are body naturally fights infections
- Helps speed up the healing process
- Protects the body
- Acute stress is good stress if turns on then off
What is CHRONIC inflammation?
- When any type of stressor doesn’t turn off in time and becomes ongoing – then it is a source of CHRONIC stress.
- CHRONIC inflammation activates the immune system (attempts to put out the fire) to release white blood cells and chemical messengers – but the attack doesn’t stop and the fire continues to burn.
- When the immune systems doesn’t “turn off” (acute stress), it begins to attack its own self and leading to auto-immunity.
In an article from Harvard Health, they discuss how chronic inflammation is connected to chronic diseases. Chronic Inflammation -“when this happens, white blood cells may end up attacking nearby healthy tissues and organs. For example, if you are overweight and have more visceral fat cells — the deep type of fat that surrounds your organs — the immune system may see those cells as a threat and attack them with white blood cells. The longer you are overweight, the longer your body can remain in a state of inflammation. Research has shown that chronic inflammation is associated with heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and bowel diseases like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.” –https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-acute-and-chronic-inflammation
“Chronic inflammation is also referred to as slow, long-term inflammation lasting for prolonged periods of several months to years. Generally, the extent and effects of chronic inflammation vary with the cause of the injury and the ability of the body to repair and overcome the damage. Chronic inflammation is also referred to as slow, long-term inflammation lasting for prolonged periods of several months to years. Generally, the extent and effects of chronic inflammation vary with the cause of the injury and the ability of the body to repair and overcome the damage. —Chronic Inflammation – Stat Pearls – NCBI Bookshelfwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › books › NBK493173
Wikipedia describes inflammation as…“Acute inflammation is the initial response of the body to harmful stimuli and is achieved by the increased movement of plasma and leukocytes (especially granulocytes) from the blood into the injured tissues. A series of biochemical events propagates and matures the inflammatory response, involving the local vascular system, the immune system, and various cells within the injured tissue.
Prolonged inflammation, known as chronic inflammation, leads to a progressive shift in the type of cells present at the site of inflammation, such as mononuclear cells, and is characterized by simultaneous destruction and healing of the tissue from the inflammatory process.”
Anything ongoing is going to cause imbalances or dysfunction – just as the house fire wasn’t stopped or if a leak in a boat wasn’t repaired.
“Chronic stress result failures of homeostasis thus lead to various diseases such as atherosclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and depression. However, while 75%–90% of human diseases is related to the activation of stress system, the common pathways between stress exposure and pathophysiological processes underlying disease is still debatable. Chronic inflammation is an essential component of chronic diseases. Additionally, accumulating evidence suggested that excessive inflammation plays critical roles in the pathophysiology of the stress-related diseases, yet the basis for this connection is not fully understood.
Chronic inflammation is an essential component of chronic diseases. Additionally, accumulating evidence suggested that “excessive inflammation plays critical roles in the pathophysiology of the stress-related diseases”-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476783/
What lifestyle habits cause or contributes to chronic inflammation?
- smoking
- obesity
- alcohol
- chronic stress
Which CHRONIC diseases are related to CHRONIC inflammation?
- cancer
- heart disease
- rheumatoid arthritis
- type 2 diabetes
- obesity
- asthma
- neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease
HIDDEN internal CHRONIC Stressors and external sources of stress that become CHRONIC can/may/will impact the WHOLE you from the inside out. We don’t really know the root causes, and may never figure out the why, because CHRONIC stressors accumulate for the variety of sources accumulating and overfilling your beaker of stress.
I found an article on “Chronic Conditions Linked to Stress” pointing out the over time, “inflammation can damage joints and bones, causing abnormalities. Inflammation in RA is partly caused by cytokines, chemicals that are released by stress. So if you’re stressed you’ll release more of these chemicals, increasing the amount of inflammation in your body.”- –The Link Between Stress and Inflammation | Everyday Health
Nutrition is medicine …how can you reduce inflammation with nutrition?
- Fish Oil
- Lipoic Acid
- Curcumin
- Spices as ginger, garlic and cayenne
- More on SEEKING HEALTH here and KION SUPPLEMENTS
https://www.healthline.com/health/chronic-inflammation#treatment
What about the LIFESTYLE habits that we work on improving in “The WHOLESTIC Method” program and when we create our FDN “D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success” individual protocol for our clients based on their full health investigation?
One of my favorite elements of “The WHOELSTIC Method” coaching program is #8… HAPPINESS, PLAY AND GRATITUDE.
How can you add more healthy stress reduction tips into your daily lifestyle?
- Nature walks…my favorite time to walk now that my work schedule changed is around sunrise and sunset
- Writing in a journal… best time for me to write is in the morning, especially after a bike ride, and then a gratitude journal in the evening
- Spending time with friends who make you laugh, smile and happy! Eliminate those toxic energy robbers as much as you can.
- Nasal breathing exercises as box breathing or the 4-7-8 breathing technique.
- Humming, singing and OMs (after our yoga practice) to activate my PNS and strengthen my vagal nerve.
- Use a essential oil diffusor – I have a new plug in for essential oils that I have been using this summer with eculaptyus, peppermint and other essential oils. Plus lavendar pillow spray.
- Yin Yoga– we have been doing power yoga a few mornings a week and some evenings yin yoga for 30-45 minutes with Inner Dimension TV. It helps us get our mind right and sleep better at night!
Dr. Ben Lynch has been discussing how the immune system works and how we can improve the function of it – build resiliency. The nutrition and lifestyle tips to improve our immune system and to build our resiliency are all included in my program – “The WHOLESTIC Method” eight elements to transforming the WHOLE you from the inside out.
Instead of living in fear and afraid to live life again- we should be taking this time to build our health, build our immune system and build our resiliency.
We can not depend on someone else who is sick and fighting off a virus, unknowingly or not, to stay home and not spread diseease or the virus.
We can depend on our own action actions by taking responsibility and ownership of our own self-defense system. We need to indentify sources of CHRONIC stress, externally and internally that are contributing to unexplained health symptoms- including chronic inflammation!
Chronic inflammation is resultling into other chronic diseases.
We do our best to minimize our exposure to the virus but we should be working on being a part of the SOLUTION!
Taking care ourselves with the tips as per Dr. Ben Lynch here on social media…as he says
“HEALTH doesn’t come in a form of a pill, supplement, machine or shot”.
Amen Dr. Ben Lynch!
“Covid doesn’t kill anyone. Their own immune system does” -Dr. Lynch
Also, easy and simple (plus affordable) nutrition and lifestyle habits we can all start doing right now to improve our immune system, gut health and redcue inflammation-
- Get your vitamins
- Zinc
- Liposomal gluathione
- Liposomal vitamin C
- PQQ
- Electrolytes
- Sleep welll (including with WiFi Off, aiplane mode)
- Eat only when hungry
- Mild to moderate exercise
- Letting your fever be a fever (until 103F)
- Hydrate with electrolytes
- Nose breathing (not breathing via mouth)
- Positive mindset
- Positive relationships
Let’s talk about inflammation again… when does ACUTE inflammation (good stress and natural response) become CHRONIC inflammation (bad stress, non-stop, ongoing)? When is inflammation a normal response…and when is it to be a “RED FLAG” of something else going on inside?
Signs of inflammation are like a car’s dashboard engine light. It tells you that something is wrong. But your response is not to take out the bulb, because that’s not the problem. Instead, you look at what caused the light to turn on. “It’s the same with inflammation,” says Dr. Shmerling. “It’s telling you that something bigger is going on that requires attention.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-acute-and-chronic-inflammation
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