Everyone knows that inflammation in the body is a thing the body kind of does when it’s hurt in various ways & everyone know that some things that you put into you body are more inflammatory & others more anti-inflammatory. In extreme inflammation you might need to take powerful anti-inflammatory drugs to stop or slow down the damage your own body is doing to itself seemingly mistakenly or accidentally although a Naturopath would likely tell you different.
Anyway I digress, my point is that almost all the things I advocate for on my blog & in the street when I’m talking you into my special interest natural health corner hahaha, they are all largely for the purpose of a general anti-inflammatory game plan for the body & a specific one for the nervous system & mind.
My favourite analogy is that for some people the damage of a highly inflammatory diet (think western style fast food/processed, high sugar/hydrogenated fat low nutrient dense diet) will go to their bones & joints first & they will suffer from pain & stiffness possibly developing into Arthritis or Rheumatism or wtv. Well, in my experience the same goes for the brain & nervous system if that is your genetic predisposition, to be extra sensitive in that body system then an inflammatory diet will affect you there with increased low mood, lethargy, anxiety, unhealthy anger, even reaching as far as paranoia, psychosis & severe depression.
The Mainstream medical field would do well, although less so financially 😉 to adopt this angle much more for mental health than it does, often adding in medication that is not conducive to an anti-inflammatory perspective whilst simultaneously reducing metabolic functioning. Not helpful in the long run. I think medication should mainly be used in the short term only, whilst other situational, interpersonal & biological things are factored in.
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