{"id":2490,"date":"2020-05-11T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terveelukeskus.ee\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2021-10-05T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:01:31","slug":"chronic-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terveelukeskus.ee\/en\/chronic-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Inflammation and Anti-Inflammatory Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met Dr. Paul Clayton, among many other interesting speakers at the Lifestyle Medicine Conference in Kaunas, who also sold his book there. Let your food be your pharmaco-nutrition<\/a> (Let Your Food Be Your Medicine), where he summarizes his vision of how food affects our health. Those with a deeper interest in the subject should read his more in-depth book on the subject, Out of the Fire.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TABLE OF CONTENTS
\n<\/span> What is inflammation?<\/a>
\n<\/span> Is chronic inflammation preventable?<\/a>
\n<\/span> What causes chronic inflammation?<\/a>
\n<\/span> The impact of inflammation on our body<\/a>
\n<\/span> Inflammation treatment. How to fight inflammation?<\/a>
\n<\/span> Anti-inflammatory foods<\/a><\/div>\n
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Dr. Paul Clayton worked as a clinical pharmacologist until he realized that the pharmacological effects of food on our health are much more diverse and important than any single pharmaceutical product. For the past 40 years, he has studied how food affects our health. This book briefly summarizes where science has come in this regard. Only a small part of what is described in the book is the fruit of Paul's own work. Much of it is a summary of the work of thousands of other scientists in laboratories and hospitals.<\/p>\n

Below, I will briefly share Paul's vision of what is wrong with our diet and how to get it back on track.<\/p>\n

Doctors in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Islamic world believed that our bodies were made up of four different humors, and that all disease resulted from an imbalance between these humors. This simple theory persisted for nearly 2,000 years, and its remnants survived until the 19th century, when modern medicine emerged. Then began detailed studies of how and what we are, resulting in a vast amount of information about disease, countless medical specialties, and a vast array of specific and often toxic drugs that dominate the modern medical system.<\/p>\n

While this pharmaceutical approach is often effective in suppressing the symptoms of disease, it has failed to prevent the degenerative diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer, dementia, osteoporosis, arthritis, allergies, depression, anxiety, etc.) that burden today\u2019s medical system. Research shows that the majority of these diseases\u2014possibly even 90%\u2014are caused by lifestyle and dietary factors and are largely preventable. These diseases are not caused by aging, which is inevitable. They are largely caused by chronic, undetected inflammation, a condition that is not inevitable at all. In fact, it is easy to treat and prevent.<\/p>\n

This has led to a unifying theory of these diseases that leaves out dangerous drugs and instead focuses on the food we eat. It is surprisingly simple, it could almost be considered a modern and scientific version of the ancient theory of the four fluids. This new unifying theory has five elements, most of which are widely accepted.<\/p>\n

\"anti-inflammatory<\/a>The diseases of modern civilization are significantly influenced by lifestyle and diet.<\/p>\n