The Definitive Guide to Inflammation
/Inflammation gets a bad rap in the alternative health world: "Inflammation causes heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune disease! It's at the root of depression." These are all true-to some extent.
Name a disease, and inflammation is involved.
Crohn's disease is inflammatory.
Major depression is inflammatory.
Heart disease is inflammatory. autoimmune diseases, which involve an inflammatory response directed at your own tissues, are inflammatory.
Arthritis is inflammatory.
Even obesity is inflammatory, with fat cells literally secreting inflammatory cytokines.
Yes, but the story is more complicated than that. Inflammation, after all, is a natural process developed through millions of years of evolution. It can't be wholly negative. Just like our bodies didn't evolve to manufacture cholesterol to give us heart disease, inflammation isn't there to give us degenerative diseases.
So, Why Does Inflammation Happen?
