What is inflammation quietly doing to your body between every meal you eat

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Inflammation is one of the body’s most essential biological tools and one of its most destructive when poorly regulated. Acute inflammation, the kind that responds to injury, infection, or localized tissue damage, is a precisely orchestrated protective process that resolves when its trigger is removed. Chronic low-grade inflammation, the kind driven by persistent dietary, lifestyle, […]

How gut cell dangerously raises your cancer risk

Gut health

Most people think of inflammation the same way they think of a cold. Something flares up, the body fights back, things return to normal, and life moves on. The gut, in particular, seems to follow this pattern flare ups come and go, symptoms ease, and on the surface, everything looks fine. But a growing body […]

7 anti-inflammatory foods to add to your cart this week

Anti-inflammatory diet

Most Americans get more than half of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods things like fast food, packaged chips, frozen dinners and commercially baked goods. That matters because high consumption of these products has been directly linked to a pro-inflammatory state in the body, a condition tied to the development and progression of serious chronic […]