EP 28 – Inflammation – The Silent Killer – What is It and What’s Causing It?

• We are now seeing the rapid increase of chronic diseases and our lifestyle, diet and environment are largely responsible for this.
• Acute inflammation happens in the body to heal you.
• When you lower inflammation you lower your risk and can improve your energy and have an easier body to maintain.
• Nutrition, Stress and Sleep all impact on inflammation.

Nutrition

• It’s important to look at a variety of factors.
• If you are having too much processed food and sugar then you will be driving up inflammation.
• Fats become incorporated into your cell membrane so taking in processed fats will result in them becoming part of your cell membranes.
• You can now personalise your nutrition. If you do a DNA test you can find out what sort of fats and carbohydrates your body can tolerate.
• Once you know your baseline you can layer in the nutrition you require and get exactly what’s right for you.
• Latest research makes the connection between our circadian rhythm and our organs.
• We have clock genes that regulate our circadian rhythm and our organs take cues from these clock genes.
• If we align our eating with  our circadian rhythm we can lower inflammation and sleep much better.

Stress

• Acute  stress is when cortisol is released in response to a specific situation.
• Chronic stress results in continual releases of cortisol and raises inflammation.
• We can suffer from both physical and biological stress.
• There are simple things you can do  in your everyday life to lower the factors that cause inflammation.

Sleep

• Sleeping well will lower levels of inflammation.
• The quality of your sleep tonight has begun to be determined from the moment you woke up this morning.
• Eating at the right time and within a 12-hour window can massively impact on the quality of sleep.
• Optimise your lifestyle around having good sleep patterns.