E Art Youmans, “Chronic Inflammation,” 27 November, 2018
The purpose your immune system is to kill pathogens, bacteria, viruses & any other intruder in the body.
Anything that causes a Autoimmune disease is the result of an imbalance of the immune system, causing it to attack the same body that it should be protecting.
. The primary goal of a healthy continuous (chronic) inflammatory response, like alcohol or a sugar-filled scoop of ice cream eaten or sipped every day for weeks or months, can trigger an autoimmune disease. Even if you may be genetically-predisposed to an autoimmune disease, it’s important to discover your trigger of chronic inflammation…the source of most autoimmune disease. Dementia is currently considered an autoimmune disease by many doctors.
There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), type 1 & 2 diabetes, lupus, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis (MS), Crohn’s disease, eczema, & dementia.
By knowing the trigger or triggers to an autoimmune disease, you can take corrective measures to either heal it or prevent it.
INFLAMATION Acute inflammation occurs when you cut your finger or scrape your knee. A redness & swelling at the injured part of your body is the result of your immune system dispatching an army of white blood cells to kill the bacteria & other harmful invaders. Acute inflammation & its automatic immune system response, prevents other infections, like the flu or pneumonia from killing you.
Chronic inflammation occurs when your digestive system is repeatedly exposed to something, like sugar or gluten, both of which cause inflammation. If the immune system cannot stop the inflammation from the trigger (e.g. sugar or sugar substitute or gluten), the immune system becomes fatigued or overburdened or it might malfunction & start attacking itself.
Hashimoto’s disease is an example of such a chronic inflammation attack against the thyroid gland. Diabetes is a chronic inflammation attack on the
pancreas.
An intelligent person should wish to protect themselves by eliminating any or all substances that could be triggers of a chronic inflammatory response in their body.
IDENTIFY POSSIBLE TRIGGERS OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
SUGGESTION: Autoimmune diseases tend to run in families, so ask family members what their triggers are.
Mold, whether in food or your home, is a trigger for autoimmune disease. A healthy body may be able to handle exposure to toxic mold until infection, old age or another trigger, weakens your immune system & an autoimmune disease can result. Parasites, like pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms & roundworms etc. can cause inflammation in your intestines & cause a leaky gut. Over 50% of folks in the Western World have parasites. Lyme disease, usually caused by a tick bite, can get into your cells & trigger an autoimmune disease.
The tick bite can also transmit parasites, viruses & other infections that cause inflammation. Everyday exposure to toxic chemicals damages our immune system, limiting its ability to protect against chronic inflammation. We eat food sprayed with toxic pesticides
. Every time we drink from a plastic cup we’re consuming chemicals leeching from the plastic. Soaps, shampoos, toothpaste etc. all contain chemicals that seep into our body through the skin & disrupt our endocrine system. Household cleaning products, exhaust car fumes & the water you drink, all add to the toxic load on your immune system.
..Practically every pharmaceutical drug causes inflammation. This is because most (if not all) pharmaceutical drugs are synthetic, petroleum-based & toxic to the body. These Big Pharma drugs treat your symptoms, & 99.9% of the time, never cures you of anything. A fatty liver causes irritation to the body & inflammation. If the liver is bombarded with too many toxins, or is unable to filter properly because of a nutritional deficiency, the liver begins to store toxins it can’t filter creating a fatty liver
. When the liver can’t store more toxins, the excess toxins permeate to the rest of the body creating inflammation & exhausting the immune system. Remember that a junk food diet when you’re a young kid can cause a fatty liver when you’re an old kid. Hormonal imbalances can lead to many autoimmune & thyroid conditions that your doctor should check for in blood tests. Many studies show that electromagnetic radiation from WIFI, cell phones & even hair dryers can cause stress in your body & trigger an immune system response that weakens the immune system. My advice is to keep your turned-off cell phone at least 6.5 feet from your brain at night.
I just bought a red “SafeSleeve Anti-Radiation RFID case” for my IPhone 7 on Amazon.com for $49.95 +tax & shipping. (This highly-rated anti-radiation case blocks up to 99% of ELF & RF cell phone radiation.) Heavy metal, like aluminum, mercury, copper, lead, cadmium & arsenic, damage brain neurons &causes inflammation. Why the government allows aluminum in antiperspirants, processed cheese, aluminum cooking pans, baking mixes, vaccines & hundreds of other products is a mystery to me.
Mercury & aluminum are used as a base in most government vaccines, lead impairs the brain, & arsenic is found in chicken feed to fatten commercial chickens. Cadmium is found mostly in cigarettes & plastic & can cause kidney damage. Copper is found in some chocolate, shellfish & coffee & causes loss of sexual interest & nervous system problems.
My advice is to never cook with either aluminum or copper pans. Avoid GMO food if possible. Although not yet proven, GMOs have been linked to autism & cancer by tests done in Europe, where GMOs are banned in most countries as a cancer-causing agent.
Chemicals used on GMO crops, such as glyphosate in Roundup, are linked to liver disease & birth defects. Wash all non-organic fruit & vegetables in special Fruit & Vegetable washes available in bottles in most health food stores. Water alone won’t wash off glyphosate, which adheres like Velcro, from GMO fruit & vegetables.
A FIRST STEP IN FIGHTING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES WHETHER YOU ALREADY HAVE AN AUTOIMUNNE DISEASE OR IF ONE IS IN YOUR FUTURE
Henry Ford didn’t reinvent the wheel & neither should you.
Ford did research & discovered the assembly-line technique which was long-used in the meat packing industry. With it, Ford cut the time to build his Model T auto from 12.5 hours to just 93 minutes.
The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, also did his own research into preventing disease & minimizing symptoms cause by diseases. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” he wrote around 400 B.C.
My advice to you, below, is to be like Henry Ford & Hippocrates:
“Research steps now to prevent inflammation which makes you susceptible to disease. If you already have any disease, including an autoimmune disease, research the disease online & at the library, ask your doctors for advice (besides Big Pharma drugs) to find ways of either reversing the disease or minimizing the symptoms caused by the disease.”
. To start you along your quest for knowledge, I have listed below foods that have anti-inflammatory effects as well as those that wreak havoc on your body & can contribute to your getting an autoimmune disease.
POTENT ANTI-INFLAMATORY FOODS (Good for you) Berries. Beans & Lentils, Greens like Kale, Spinach, Broccoli, Seeds, Sprouts, Onions, Garlic, Scallions, Shallots, Leaks, Chives, acai, turmeric & Ginger. All these foods contain special chemical compounds that decrease inflammation & pain. Practically every fruit & vegetable is anti-inflammatory as long as it isn’t processed by a manufacturer who will usually add sugar & other inflammation-causing toxic ingredients for longer shelf life. Eating fruit & vegetables raw gives you better nutrition.
Pesticides, herbicides & fungicides on fruits & vegetables can trigger many autoimmune diseases over time. If possible, buy or grow organic fruit & vegetables, that shouldn’t have any pesticides, herbicides or fungicides on them.
Phytonutrients in berries, vitamins, minerals & fiber in fruit & vegetables work together (synergistically) to promote health & lower disease risk,
According to Bob Livingston’s alerts on September 1, 2018, “Anthocyanins, the compounds that give cherries their brilliant red color, are anti-inflammatories 10 times stronger than ibuprofen and aspirin. A few cherries every day can keep inflammation & gout away.
ELIMINATE INFLAMMATORY FOODS (Bad for you) Avoid commercial bread with gluten in it & most processed food you buy in containers or bottles in the supermarket. Sugar is inflammatory, so remember that catsup is 15% sugar, many breads are 10% sugar & even white potatoes have a high glycemic (sugar) value.
This is only basic information, to help you both avoid disease or to possibly reverse it if you already suffer from a form of arthritis, dementia or any other disease. Eliminating inflammation is the key to preventing many diseases & reversing existing diseases.
SOURCE: “Autoimmune How-to-Guide,” Jonathan Otto, 2018
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Art Youmans, “Foods & Other Things That Fight Inflammation,” 3 December 2019
Chronic inflammation weakens the immune system & makes it easy for diseases like cancer & dementia to grow. Essentially, chronic inflammation is like MiracleGrow for diseases in your body, like cancer & Alzheimer's disease.
A new German study, “Inflammation Drives tau damage in Altheimer's,” shows that inflammation chemically-changes tau proteins so they separate from the cell skeletons of the nerve cells & stick together & eventually die.
In healthy brains, the tau proteins help stabilize the skeleton of the nerve cell or neuron. (SOURCE: “Inflammation Drives tau damage in Altheimer's,” by Catherine Paddock Ph.D, MedicalNewsToday.Com, 11/22/2019)
The more extra weight you're carrying, the greater your inflammation levels.
If you want to eliminate chronic inflammation, then watch your diet & lose weight
Stop eating simple carbohydrates, like bread, cookies, cakes, noodles etc. that raise your blood sugar & are responsible for the visceral fat around your mid-section that's a powerful trigger for inflammation.
Gluten & sugar should be eliminated from your diet. Gluten & sugar are both highly inflammatory. Over-the-counter drugs to treat pain, like Ibuprofen, can damage the lining of the gut, which could lead to leaky gut. When the gut is damaged, this leads to more inflammation in your body.
Eat cold water fatty fish, like salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, herring & black cod. Their extra-long-chain omega-3 fats help cool inflammation in your body. If you can afford it, grass-fed beef & wild game have greater levels of extra-long-chain omega-3 fats EPA & DHA than commercial meat. I buy antibiotic & growth hormone-free hamburger, for example, at Sprouts (a health food store) for only $3.99 a pound on sale.
The Tumeric root contains curcumin, that acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory. Take it in pill form. Similar to curcumin, Ginger is also a potent anti-inflammatory that inhibits the COX-2 enzyme.
Leafy greens like kale, spinach, chard, arugula, radishes, mustard greens, salad etc. protect the body from oxidative damage from chronic inflammation.
I can't eat hot peppers, but the capsaicin in them fights inflammation via your brain.
Blueberries are anti-inflammatory & contain quercetin, a potent antioxidant that fights inflammation. Most raw fruit & vegetables fight inflammation.
Beets are full of the antioxidant, betalain, that also fights inflammation.
Pineapple has bromelain which reduces swelling, bruising, healing time & pain after an operation & is anti-inflammatory.
Broccoli contains anti-inflammatory antioxidants. Most vegetable oils used to cook food are bad for your heart, according to Sam Walters M.D.,an Arizona physician who consults with NASA. Dr. Walters says that vegetable oils “contain certain dangerous levels of polyunsaturated fats that overwhelm your body, leading to inflammation and cell damage.” Buy organic, non-GMO cooking oil at your health food store. Most restaurants use these harmful cooking oils. For this reason I seldom dine out in Tulsa.
Never forget that most bottled, canned & prepared foods are saturated with sugar, artificial sugar & salt, both for flavor & to give them more shelf life, plus margarine contains deadly hydrogenated fat, which gives more shelf life & clogs up your arteries.
Eat butter!!!
For your information, ketchup is 15% sugar, & most steak sauces average about 40% sugar.
In my opinion, sodas & the toxic stuff in them (e.g. sugar, chemicals for flavoring etc.) are responsible for the high obesity level in this country. I've seen articles that claim a U.S. Obesity rate of up to 50%.
Obesity Leads to a Shortened Life
YOUR VAGUS NERVE CAN CAUSE CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
Being the largest nerve in the body, running from your brain through the chest beyond your stomach, the vagus nerve can cause chronic inflammation, depression, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety & a bunch of other bad stuff if it's out of whack.
Scientists have found that stimulating the vagus nerve with electrical signals has great potential for reducing depression, anxiety, obesity & improving conditions like epilepsy.
These electrical signals should be helpful for many folks whose body is continually in a state of fight or flight, which causes chronic inflammation.
Instead of using electrical signals, you can activate the vagus nerve by long, deep breathing. See below:
Sit on a chair or on a folded blanket on the floor.
Sit upright & close your eyes As you inhale, lift your collarbone & sit straighter As you exhale, soften & relax As you inhale, expand the sides of your rib cage As you exhale, soften & relax As you inhale, expand the front & back of your rib cage.
As you exhale, soften & relax Repeat for 5-10 minutes every day to stimulate & tone up your vagus nerve to do beneficial things to your body (SOURCE: “Simple Vagus Nerve Stimulation Exercises to Enhance Overall Well-Being,” Anna Hunt, September 22, 2017, Awarenessjunkie.com)
IMPORTANT NOTE: “Obesity can significantly increase your risk of other diseases, including HEART disease, Type 2 DIABETES and CANCER.” Keep your BMI below 30 & live longer. Below 25 BMI is even better. SOURCE: Healthline.com “13 Benefits of Taking Fish Oil,” page 3)
From my research of secondary sources (e.g. medical reports of studies etc.) it appears that Cannabidiol (AKA CBD oil), has the greatest potential, of all legal substances, to both reduce a person's inflammation as well as the person's need for opioids.
I plan to do one or more newsletters on the benefits of CBD oil in March 2020.
Never forget that Big Pharma is working behind the scenes to get CBD oil classified as a Schedule 1 drug, so the FDA can regulate it, like stem cells. Stems cells were classified a drug in a terrible 2016 anti-consumer law signed by President Obama & approved by congressmen & women on the take from Big Pharma.. Big Pharma recently failed in South Dakota, where CBD oil was classified as a Schedule IV nutritional supplement. Big Pharma is hard at work in other states trying to get FDA regulation control of CBD oil.
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