Category: inflammation

How To Reduce Inflammation in Your Body (Video)

Is a hidden, smoldering fire in your body coming between you and good health? This week on the UltraWellness blog, Mark Hyman, M.D. explains how inflammation causes chronic disease and weight gain — and uncovers the link between food allergies and inflammation. Republished from TV.GreenMedInfo.com …


What Makes Vitamin E a ‘Grade-A’ Skin Protectant? What’s the Best Way to Take it?

We all want beautiful, supple skin. After all, healthy, vibrant skin symbolizes youth and vitality. But when we expose our bodies to too much sun or environmental irritants, like air pollution, harmful elements known as free radicals can damage your cells. This can lead to chronic inflammation and even tumors. So how do you prevent…


These Anti-Inflammatory Foods May Offer Pain Relief

When your wrist gets sore, you don’t automatically think of food as a treatment. And maybe it’s not necessarily one, either. But it might be a preventative tool. Managing inflammation is one of the ways to treat or prevent pain. Your diet plays a major role in inflammation in the body, and although eating a…


5 Common Kitchen Foods to Reduce Inflammation Naturally

Our kitchens may hold the keys to combatting inflammation in a safe, natural, and effective way. It has been established that inflammation is an underlying contributing factor in multiple diseases that afflict Western society. Unfortunately, the Standard American Diet, as well as poor lifestyle choices such as inactivity, contribute to the wide-spread presence of inflammation…


The War Against an Underrated yet Essential Food in Our Diet

Nutrition is a field of contradictions and changing fads. In recent decades, most schools and teachers encourage a diet high in grains and vegetables, moderate protein, and low fats and oils. Over the years, paleo, keto, vegan, and various diets that contradict each other have come and gone. However, amidst it all, is an important…


Unpopular Vegetables Top Clot-Busters, Research Says

Researchers in Australia have found that some of the most unpopular vegetables may help reduce the risk or even reverse the effects of stroke. Sydney-based Heart Research Institute (HRI) has found that isothiocyanates, a group of chemicals found in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy, and cabbage, could reduce bad blood…


Astaxanthin – the Ultimate Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Aging Nutrient

By Derek Henry, Holistic Health Coach for Healing the Body At the root of every disease process is inflammation, a first defence process used by the body in order to try and heal itself. The problem is that when your body is in that state chronically it creates an overactive immune system, which brings crippling pain with it….


Exercise to Reduce Muscle Loss and Inflammation

Women and men who exercise regularly have larger and stronger hearts, and greater endurance and strength, than those who do not exercise regularly [1]. Their muscles are stronger and more coordinated [2]. We can all expect to become weaker as we age, but you can markedly delay this inevitable loss of muscle strength by having…


A Better Way to Diagnose Malnutrition

A new systematic assessment that describes malnutrition in the context of starvation, chronic disease, and/or acute disease or injury will help with diagnosis and treatment, nutritionists say. Up to 50 percent of patients in hospitals and nursing facilities are estimated to be malnourished and although it is widespread, confusion exists in the clinical community on…


Limit the Lectins: How Lectins Can Harm Your Health

Many lectins can cause inflammation, while some increase your blood viscosity, interfere with gene expression and disrupt your endocrine function. Download Interview Transcript    |     Download my FREE Podcast Lectins can be a common and hidden source of health problems and weight gain, even if you eat an otherwise healthy diet.[1] Lectins have been…