inflammation

I'd have questions.

I'd post them YouTube comments or on Facebook groups.

And so there's like, there's free communities out there as well.

Later on, I ended up joining Dr. Barry's community, but there's, there's tons of great communities out there, but just try not to do it solo, like all by yourself.

So I started investigating.

Welcome to the Inflammation Investigator, the podcast that uncovers the inflammation lurking underneath your ailments.

Because autoimmune and chronic conditions should not be viewed as death knells when they are actually alarm bells.

I'm a traditional naturopath and founder of the Inflammation Academy.

And in two episodes every week, we dig into what conventional medicine might be missing.

If you're living with chronic or unexplained symptoms, this investigation is for you.

Someone with an autoimmune condition, such as MS, may feel fatigued or heavy-headed constantly without any obvious contributing stressors.

Living with an autoimmune condition can feel like a life sentence that is both inescapable and unmanageable.

That's inflammationfix.co. After 1,831 revisions and reviews, we finally celebrated submitting the final book to the printer, only to find out that we had to rework all 300 plus graphics and tables.

But before I share why, let me take you back to why I even wrote this next book, Inflammation Fix.

I spent years trying to understand why chronically ill people can have so many answers, but still not get well.

I wrote Inflammation Fix because after years of working in chronic illness, I kept seeing the same problem.

People had diagnoses, they had labs, they had supplements, medications, diets, specialists.

People had a lot of information, but they still didn't have a clear way forward.

It's figuring out what really matters.

What's considered a downstream symptom? What's considered an upstream symptom? What is a symptom that's causing another symptom? What deserves attention now? What can actually wait? And what are things that are supposed to help But in your particular system, it's actually going to overwhelm the system.

Let's get started.

You cannot have optimal health and low inflammation without a healthy gut.

The gut microbiome is the epicenter of our health.

In today's episode, I'm going to review seven research-backed habits that can support your gut microbiome that I recommend as a functional medicine dietician.

I have been doing stool testing for the last 12 years and helping people optimize their gut microbiome to help to lower inflammation, to help to improve blood sugar balance, to help to improve autoimmune disease and mood, because so much depends on having a healthy gut.

As a brief overview of the gut microbiome, you have trillions of microbes that live in your colon, which is your large intestine, and they play a powerful role in impacting many different aspects of our health.

They impact inflammation and your overall immune system.

About 70% of your immune tissue lives in and around your gut.

But people who stand by raw milk say they use it for everything.

The big one you're gonna hear is for inflammation.

Inflammation is one of these-

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That's a fascinating one, right? Because inflammation-

But the environment, because the living system is in an oxygen-rich environment and spatiotemporality is always moving, That means the aging itself is an environmental induction.

Along with aging, you get environmental pro-inflammation.

Pro-inflammation can lead to the potentiation of cardiovascular disease.

the potential for increasing infections because of the standing down of the surveillance phenomena because of the lack of a robust monocyte macrophage cell division rate, along with dendritic cells and neutrophils.

And then the neutrophils moving towards the net processing, which then will cause netosis, which will further exacerbate inflammation.

Here's why.

Inflammation is one of those terms that is just thrown around all the time, but I feel like not many people actually understand what it is.

And so often I hear...

People, practitioners, even doctors talk about inflammation as if finding out that you're inflamed is the end result.

So I wanted to share with you, when I was digging into all of the research regarding inflammation when I was preparing for this podcast episode here, I found this really cool analogy that I wanted to share with all of you.

So the analogy is relating inflammation to fire, which some of you may have heard something like that before, but I really liked the way that it broke this down, and I wanted to share it with all of you today.

So Inflammation is actually an old ancestral word which comes from the Latin word inflamere, meaning to ignite or to burn.

And that is appropriate because the purpose of inflammation is to ignite in defense against potential threats and then to be able to extinguish that after the threat is neutralized.

Could it be a nutrient deficiency that is part of the process? is it something with her partner's sperm? Is there a defect, a DNA defect or something like that that may not have been as deeply evaluated that may need to be looked at? Could it be a genetic concern that may not have been checked? So that's where I ask different questions or other questions and look a little bit more deeply.

How does inflammation actually affect fertility? So like in layman's terms, somebody that off the street could understand.

Well, Inflammation gets a bad rap because it's talked about as being a bad thing, and it can be.

Inflammation is important in the body for repair if you have damage.

So it's part of the natural process of healing.

However, when it's chronic or it's dysregulated, then it can cause a disruption with thyroid function, ovulation, and quality as well.