From eNewsletter 12/30/2024
DID YOU KNOW that there is a "new" hypothesis about inflammation, according a new study in Frontiers in Immunology?
The new hypothesis is called unalamation, which means the compounds that lead to inflammation in our body are always present in everyday healthy physiology, but they are under the control of anti-inflammatory compounds. For example, when we breathe oxygen, we create free radicals which must be quenched or they create oxidative inflammation. Fruit and vegetables provide anti-inflammatory, free radical quenching compounds, unless you do not consume enough of them.
Acute inflammation results from an increase of the inflammatory compounds at the site of an injury. However, chronic inflammation comes from a decrease of the anti-inflammatory compounds in a normal healthy physiological state. Because the balance of inflammatory and anti-inflammatory compounds helps maintain a normal health state, the authors purport that the goal of treatment for chronic inflammation may not be to decrease inflammatory compounds but to find a way to increase anti-inflammatory compounds.
The goal is surely to increase anti-inflammatory compounds with optimal diet and supplements. This reduces chronic inflammation, which is behind many autoimmune diseases. But you cannot reduce chronic inflammation without limiting the daily inflammatory insults (i.e. gluten, dairy, sugar). It is a delicate balance to bring this into balance.
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