09/01/2020
Let’s talk 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍
Most of the time when we think inflammation, we think temporary and usually related to injury or illness of some kind, right?! 🤕
When you fell of a swing or off your bike as a kid, what happened?! You scraped your hands, elbows, knees, etc. and the skin at that injury site became red, angry, warm, and inflamed looking right?! 🩹
🔺 That happens due to the natural healing process in our bodies-> the inflammation at the site is there for protection and to offer a buffer where a surge of healing cells packed with nutrients can funnel into in order to start the recovery process.
When you have a cold or sinus infection, for example, the doctor looking in the back of your throat usually finds what?! Red, inflamed, angry looking glands and throat, right?! 🤒
🔺 This is also due to inflammation that occurs when your body is under attack from the germs and infection running down your sinus passage.
For the most part, both of these instances heal after a week or two and the inflammation goes down once the body doesn’t feel threatened anymore and enough recovery has occurred.
𝐇𝐎𝗪𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑, what if I told you inflammation isn’t always a temporary occurrence and many MANY people unknowingly walk around with some kind of internal inflammation on a regular basis! 😰
𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 isn’t only about pain & redness. It’s often about whole-body communication disruption leading to system malfunction and even shut-down.
A lot of different factors contribute to chronic inflammation, more than I can go into in this one post, but one 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄 factor is diet and certain foods that need avoidance by many, if not most individuals.
These foods are often times referred to as metabolic and immune disrupters, because the digestive processes needed to break them down often cause adverse and harmful byproducts that get absorbed and distributed into our organs and blood.
When our digestive tracts are our front-line defense against these “attackers”, inflammatory response in our digestive tracks is our first warning. However, we have grown so accustomed to feeling bloated, having brain fog, puffy extremities, irritated bowels, etc that we have stopped listening to our bodies warnings and live with this chronic inflammation all the time now.
Simply reducing your intake of these 5 types of food, is a huge first step in reducing some of the inflammation many of you live with and don’t even realize.
