Inflammation is what happens when your body receives some sort of an insult. Cut your finger and the inflammatory response ensures that the blood clots and the immune cells required to deal with infection are dispatched. Inflammation is a rapid reaction-type force. It should arrive on the scene quickly, do its job, then deactivate. The problem comes when it doesn’t do this, the rapid reaction force becomes mired down without an exit strategy. Chronic inflammation ensues. It’s well understood that chronic inflammation relates to a number of physical conditions — arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, some chronic skin problems, thyroid disease — but at the bleeding edge of nutritional research is the concept that depression specifically is associated with a chronic low-grade inflammatory response.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:15:04 +0000
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