Methylation: Why It Matters For Your Immunity, Inflammation & More - mindbodygreen

Methylation: Why It Matters For Your Immunity, Inflammation & More - mindbodygreen


Methylation is the latest buzzword in the health industry,
and for good reason. It's a biochemical process involved in almost all
of your body's functions!

What is methylation? Without getting
too technical, methylation is the addition of a single carbon and three
hydrogen atoms (called a methyl group) to another molecule. The removal
of a methyl group is called demethylation. Think of billions of little
on/off switches inside your body that control everything from your
stress response and how your body makes energy from food, to your brain
chemistry and detoxification. That's methylation and demethylation.

Methyl groups control:

• The stress (fight-or-flight) response
• The production and recycling of glutathione — the body's master antioxidant
• The detoxification of hormones, chemicals and heavy metals
• The inflammation response
• Genetic expression and the repair of DNA
• Neurotransmitters and the balancing of brain chemistry
• Energy production
• The repair of cells damaged by free radicals
• The immune response, controlling T-cell production, fighting infections and viruses and regulating the immune response

If
you have a shortage of methyl groups, or your methylation cycle is
interrupted, any or all of these processes can become compromised, and
you could get sick. Research has clearly linked impaired methylation with autoimmune conditions.

Methylation
and glutathione. Improving methylation is important for everyone, but
it's especially important if you have an autoimmune condition. One of
the reasons is the role of methylation in the production and recycling
of glutathione, the body's master antioxidant
and master "splinter" remover. Glutathione directly neutralizes free
radicals, reduces inflammation and assists in the role of other
antioxidants like vitamin C, E and lipoic acid.

Glutathione
contains sulfur groups, which are sticky compounds that adhere to
toxins and heavy metals and carry them out of the body. This is a good
thing and you want lots of it! I haven't met anyone (including me) with
any type of autoimmune condition that has adequate methylation and
levels of glutathione.

In a perfect world, your body makes its
own glutathione from the amino acids cysteine, glycine and glutamine,
then recycles it via methylation using methyl donors like vitamin B12,
folate, betaine and other nutrients. Under normal conditions, your body
makes and recycles enough glutathione to handle all the toxins that
you're exposed to. However, if you have a high toxic body burden, or a
part of the methylation cycle is disrupted, you can get very sick.

I never imagined I would ever get rid of my psoriasis | afr.com

I never imagined I would ever get rid of my psoriasis | afr.com

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I never imagined I would ever get rid of my psoriasis

David Chappell has regained control of his skin

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Jill Margo

In his 20s David Chappell suddenly found himself living
with an unwanted companion. It was with him day and night and wouldn't
budge.

It was an unsightly skin condition which, when it poked out from under his shirt cuffs or his collar, made others look twice.

What surprised Chappell was that his psoriasis arrived out of the blue and then spread intermittently.

At
its height, it covered 70 per cent of his body and no matter how many
specialists he consulted and how many treatments he tried, the disease
seemed intractable.

"The Singing Detective", played by Michael Gambon, is
hospitalised with severe psoriasis. The author of the British television
series, Dennis Potter, suffered severely from the disease.

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Tired of being
investigated, prodded and asked the same old questions, he lowered his
expectations and resigned himself to living with psoriasis for ever.

Today, at the age of
37, Chappell has changed his position and has a message for the half a
million Australians who are silently living with psoriasis too: "Don't
give up!"

He's been on a trial of a drug that people are now describing as "life changing".

With
its red, thick and scaly plaques, psoriasis looks like a chronic
inflammatory skin disease but it is actually a systemic immune disease
that can alter and shorten a person's life.

Chappell had never
heard of it and when it first appeared as a few red spots on his ankle
he had no idea how preoccupying and almost disabling it would become.

Wearing shorts in
summer or stripping off at the beach was aesthetically out of the
question. Coming home after a good time and falling into bed was no
longer possible either.

If he didn't apply his ointments and
creams – and then wait patiently for them to dry – he'd be punished in
the morning with cracked and painful skin.

This
"companion" demanded endless care and often didn't even respond to it.
Figuring out what triggered it to flare from time to time was near
impossible.

Doctors told Chappell that triggers could include
stress, alcohol, obesity, smoking and some medications. There were also
triggers he couldn't protect against such as common upper respiratory
infections like a "strep throat", scratches, insect bites and any injury
to the skin.

The spots first
appeared when he was abroad working in media and communications for the
controversial mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.

By the time he
shifted to HSBC's London headquarters, to lead a global team of
communicators responsible for supporting HR across 85 countries, the
disease was firmly established and he was battling to keep it under
control.

It forced him to mature much earlier than his mates. "I
knew I had to create a life balance, eating well, drinking enough water
and resting. This was going to be with me for life and I had to learn to
manage it daily."

Psoriasis is genetic. Although Chappell's
mother sometimes had red patches with silvery scales on her hands, these
were always attributed to her work as a nurse, which required constant
hand washing with abrasive disinfectants.

As in her case, the
disease can be mild – defined as affecting less than 3 per cent of the
body – but it can also be so bad it affects fingernails, toenails, the
soft tissues of the genitals, the inside of the mouth and joints.

In severe cases people need to be hospitalised as happened in the celebrated '80s television series, The Singing Detective,
in which the main character was covered with psoriasis and so disabled
he could managed to write only with a pen tied to his fist.

Dennis
Potter, who created the story, suffered intensely from the disease
himself and knew about the lack of control, depression and desperation
it can bring.

World-class American golfer Phil Mickelson suffered from psoriatic arthritis that was so extreme he couldn't get out of bed.

Although Kim Kardashian
spoke openly about her psoriasis, it's relatively rare for celebrities
to champion the cause and consequently there has not been much awareness
of it in the public mind.

There is now a concerted effort to lift
its profile. This is driven by a growing understanding that psoriasis
is a systemic disease with potential long-term consequences for the rest
of the body and by the fact that treatment has significantly improved.

There
is also increasing research into the psychosocial impact it has on
quality of life and on productivity. When people have severe untreated
psoriasis their work productivity suffers.

This disease can drive
people to the edge. For many it is a heavy social burden and it is not
unusual for suffers to anticipate rejection and feel ashamed.

In
2010, a multicentre study conducted in Australian adults with psoriasis
showed 73 per cent reported hiding their condition because of
embarrassment and fear of stigma.

"It certainly turned me into a
nervous person," says Chappell, who is back in Sydney working as a
change and communications manager for Suncorp.

He is grateful his
psoriasis never reached his hands or face, but it was on his scalp and
at times could be plainly seen, prompting questions about whether it was
contagious.

Eventually he avoided routine activities like going
to the gym where he couldn't cover up because it would look odd and he
would sweat even more.

Eight months ago he was
persuaded to join a trial for a treatment using "biologics". While
regular drugs are made from plants or chemicals, biologics are derived
from living cells cultured in a laboratory.

Designed to inhibit specific components of the immune system, they are usually given by injection or intravenous infusion.

First-generation
biologics, such as vaccines and insulin, have been around for many
years. In terms of psoriasis, biologics have been available in Australia
for a decade and are now in their third generation.

Until last
September there were four biologic drugs that could be expected to clear
or almost clear the skin of one-third to over 70 per cent of people
with psoriasis.

In September a new, more targeted biologic,
secukinumab, became available with the expectation of clearing or almost
clearing the skin of more than 80 per cent of the disease.

Now approval is being sought for a similar drug, ixekizumab, in Australia.

"The
level of response we see with these two new drugs is unprecedented,"
says Peter Foley, associate professor of dermatology at the University
of Melbourne.

While ixekizumab "may work in more people and may
work more completely", Foley says patients describe both drugs as life
changing because they have regained control of their skin.

Foley, who is also
research director at the Skin and Cancer Foundation in Melbourne, says
as biologics work by suppressing immunity, they always carry a risk of
infection or cancer.

As these latest two are more targeted, they
are probably safer than their broader spectrum predecessors, but they
still carry risk.

Chappell has been injected every fortnight with ixekizumab and says he's experienced not even a mild after-effect.

After
the first month his disease had noticeably retracted and has now
virtually disappeared. He's regained the freedom of normality and if he
feels hot at work can enjoy the ordinary pleasure of rolling up his
sleeves.

 "Now that it's gone, I realise just how much head space
it took. I have much more mental energy." Chappell is hoping with all
his heart that the treatment keeps working for him.

In June this year, The New England Journal of Medicine reported high rates of clearance of disease in people with moderate to severe psoriasis treated with ixekizumab at 60 weeks.

Side effects included slightly raised rates of low white blood cell counts, yeast infections and inflammatory bowel disease.

As
there is always the chance of serious infections with longer use or in
vulnerable patients, safety beyond 60 weeks will need to be monitored.

The drug has since been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

A retrospective study on biologic drugs for psoriasis, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, found those who respond rapidly are more likely to enjoy long-term remission.

Read more: http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/health/mens-health/i-never-imagined-i-would-ever-get-rid-of-my-psoriasis-20160808-gqng60#ixzz4IXVqiNpC


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Gut Flora and Inflammation | Mark's Daily Apple

Gut Flora and Inflammation | Mark's Daily Apple

4 May

Putting Out the Fire: Gut Flora and the Inflammatory Cycle

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It’s
funny. Once you realize the relationship between nutrition, disease,
health, and metabolism is complicated, complex, and completely
interdependent, things somehow get a bit simpler. Everything is
connected to everything else. Chronic stress begets chronic
inflammation, which chronically elevates cortisol, which induces insulin
resistance and belly fat accumulation. Celiacs are usually intolerant
of casein, too. Diabetics get heart disease more and have higher cancer
mortality rates. Diabetics are often insulin resistant and usually
overweight. Celiacs are often Type 1 diabetics. The overweight sleep
less, work more, and get less sun than leaner folks.





Now, it’d be difficult to map out the precise relationships between
myriad maladies and their nutritional triggers or risk factors. To do so
definitively would produce a mostly unreadable mess. What we do instead
is speculate. Make good guesses based on clinical, anecdotal, even
anthropologic evidence. We look at what those people with chronic
inflammation, obesity, autoimmune disease, diabetes, and celiac are
eating, sleeping, and exercising, and we go from there. The precise
physiological mechanisms behind some of these relationships have yet to
be fully teased out, but the relationships exist and that’s usually
enough to get results. Hence, simplicity.


Okay, maybe relative simplicity is a better descriptor. My
point is this: the human body is incredibly complex, its every process
multi-factorial. As soon as we decipher cause-and-effect, we’re beset
with more questions. There are intermediary steps along the way. What’s
causing the “cause” to have the “effect”? What’s it like on the cellular
level? How many steps, how many mechanisms are at play between cause
and effect? It’s almost like there’s an infinite regression of steps simply because there are so many things going on at the cellular level to make basic physiological processes go.


We do know that inflammation, especially chronic, systemic
inflammation seems to be involved in nearly every disease under the sun.
Obesity, cancer, heart disease, autoimmune disease – if it’s
killing people, increasing health care costs, and reducing quality of
life, inflammation is bound to be involved at some level. That makes
things easier, in my opinion, because we have a good idea how to avoid
chronic inflammation, and that should take care of half the battle.


Avoid sugars, grains, legumes, and processed vegetable oils.


Eat lots of healthy animals and their fat, along with vegetables, and fruits and nuts on occasion.


Get plenty of sleep.


Get regular exercise – but not too much, and keep the Chronic Cardio to a minimum.


Get regular sun.


Don’t stress.


Now there’s a new (ancient) wrinkle to consider in the fight against chronic inflammation: the gut flora.
Understanding our own bodies is difficult enough, but now we’ve also
got to make sense of how the droves of foreign (but symbiotic) microbes
living in our guts interact with our health. We know a fair amount
already.


Our relationship to gut flora is confusing and rather precarious. If
the right conditions are met, we exist in harmony. If good bacteria is
stable, breaking down fiber (like pectin and inulin) into short chain
fatty acids (like butyrate),
and working harmoniously with the body, gut inflammation is suppressed,
intestinal permeability is reduced, and multiple health biomarkers
(lipids, insulin) improve. But we must remember – gut flora doesn’t
exist for our benefit. Even if gut flora species were sentient, they’d
only be acting out of self-interest. They wouldn’t “care” about us.
They’re just trying to survive. It just so happens that keeping
us happy by mediating immune responses and tight junction function,
helping identify harmful intruders, and producing short chain fatty
acids like butyrate puts the flora in good standing with our immune
systems. They scratch our back, we provide room and board and don’t dispatch antibodies to destroy them.


Gut flora influences the human immune response
(provides a blockade against damaging bacteria; gives a “safe word” to
avoid the immune system wasting resources on attacking; influences size
of the thymus). Mice without gut flora have a severely truncated immune
response, for example.


Now what is the primary immune response to damaging stimuli? Inflammation.
In correct doses, inflammation is a boon, necessary for healing and
protection from foreign invaders. But in excess, inflammation is at the
heart of many diseases. Gut inflammation especially is associated with a
number of autoimmune diseases. Leaky gut, or intestinal permeability,
for example, is associated with inflammation of the gut, and with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.


Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, occurs when the gut
flora is compromised. Remember, normal gut flora acts as a physical
barrier to foreign flora; they are stubborn tenants, old ornery relics
of the neighborhood who refuse to leave and who dissuade pathogenic
flora from settling in. If the good gut flora is gone or
disrupted, pathogenic bacteria can populate the gut at will. The result
is SIBO, and it leads to gut inflammation and intestinal hyper
permeability.


Barriers called tight junctions guard the pathways between intestinal epithelial cells. Tight junctions, and their governing toll-like receptors,
rely on cooperative gut flora in order to know which proteins and which
molecules are to be barred entry; compromised gut flora and leaky tight
junctions allow proteins and other molecules to enter the blood stream
haphazardly. If damaging proteins (like lectins from grains and legumes,
for example, or gluten) 
slip into the blood stream, they are recognized and the immune system
responds as it normally would to foreign, damaging intruders: with
inflammation.


In correct doses, inflammation is a boon, necessary for healing and protection from foreign invaders…


See where I’m going with this?


It’s all a vicious cycle. Inflammation leads to
disturbed gut flora (or maybe it’s the other way around – the classic
chicken and the egg dilemma), SIBO, malfunctioning toll-like receptors,
and leaky gut, allowing proteins to enter the body and provoke an
inflammatory response by the immune system. More inflammation, more
bacterial overgrowth, maybe a bout of antibiotics thrown in for good
measure which wipes out the bacteria, leaving a clean slate and
prompting another mad dash by microbes to fill the vacancies, and the
result is – potentially – a permanently altered/disrupted distribution
of gut flora both supporting and supported by chronic systemic
inflammation. Where does it end? How do we fix it?


Common tactics don’t seem to work too well. Excessive antibiotic
usage negatively impacts the population of gut flora, destroying the
good with the bad. Think indiscriminate carpet-bombing. Living a
sterile, bacteria-less early existence
(dirt avoidance, lack of breastfeeding, C-section) has a similar effect
by limiting the variety and the amount of gut flora from the very
start. Whether you had it and lost it or never had it at all, the effect
is the same: suboptimum levels of intestinal bacteria. Neither avoiding
nor eradicating bacteria is the solution.


So what is the solution, beyond traveling back in time to populate your infant gut with probiotics?


I mentioned Dr. Art Ayer’s Cooling Inflammation
blog last week, and I’m going to do so again. First, Art suggests
adopting an anti-inflammatory diet. His dietary recommendations are
essentially identical to mine – high SFA, moderate animal protein, low O-6, O-3 supplementation, leafy greens, some fruit and nuts. He also suggests probiotic usage, either in supplement or whole food form (yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut),
to repopulate the gut with good flora. The next one is the most
interesting: eating fibrous vegetables fresh from the garden, unwashed,
in order to feed your new flora as well as introduce new bacteria and
new digestive enzymes to diversify your gut’s digestive skill set
(similar to how seaweed-borne bacterial enzymes taught Japanese gut flora to break down seaweed). Foods like jicama,
onions, garlic, and Jerusalem artichokes provide the prebiotic inulin
(a type of fiber) which gut flora consume and convert to helpful short
chain fatty acids.


It seems like a solid, familiar plan. The basic Primal Blueprint diet
is already anti-inflammatory, and we promote the consumption of fermented foods and probiotics, but perhaps a greater focus on feeding flora prebiotics is in order, too. It makes sense.


If there’s anything I’ve learned as a married father of two, it’s
that keeping the organisms living under your roof happy and well-fed is
absolutely essential if you intend to live a low-stress,
anti-inflammatory life.


Thanks for reading and Grok on!

Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/gut-flora-inflammation/#ixzz454INJhFA

How to Lower Inflammation - The Root of All Disease - The Art of Unity

How to Lower Inflammation - The Root of All Disease - The Art of Unity

By Bill Farr on June 26, 2015  in Body, Uncategorized

Everything You Need to
Know to Protect yourself from Dangerous Inflammation, the root of all
disease. – How to Lower Inflammation

Inflammation – Normal and Abnormal

We need inflammation in our body for normal detox and repair
otherwise we would have infection constantly but too much inflammation
causes serious problems. There are no symptoms when working properly,
but when your body becomes swollen, immobile, in pain and often times
people go to the doctor and are given pills that make the pain go away.
Now, if you are on painkillers long enough, which most people are… your
doctor will order regular liver blood panel tests. This is because many
of the pain medicine out there can actually shut off the primary pathway
of detoxification, making the vicious cycle of pain even worse! (More
problems with conventional medicine are mentioned below)

Problems occur if you have:

Redness, warmth, pain, swelling, more than normal waist size, and loss of functions
– all unhealthy version of inflammation. You can see if you have too
much inflammation by testing your fasting insulin level which should be
at two or three.

Two of the Biggest Factors Causing Inflammation:

– Stress is a huge factor – often people who take up
a regular practice of meditation notice they lose weight and don’t know
why and it is because their stress, inflammation, and cortisol is
lowered.

– Standard American diet – low fat high carbohydrate,
high omega-6 vegetable oils (soybean, corn, sunflower oils). These all
cause insulin to rise, weight gain, as we become more insulin-resistant,
leading to type 2 diabetes and is compared to taking sandpaper to your
veins, causing inflammation. The Omega 6 to 3 ratio that should be 3:1
but is typically 30:1  in the typical American diet.

Here are some other contributors that add to chronic pain and inflammation:

• Artificial Sweeteners

• Smoking

• High amounts of caffeine

• Processed food

• Dairy

• Sugar

• Wheat

• Trans Fats

• Omega 6 Fatty Acids

• MSG

• Alcohol

• Pollution

• Lack of sleep

These are all things you should not consume or do when you are in pain. This inflammation not only causes cancer, and other diseases, but cancer cannot grow without it.

How to Lower Inflammation:

In order to prevent or stop inflammation, you need to:

Stop:

Stop smoking, avoid fried foods and trans-fats, sugar, refined grains
(pasta and breads), a sedentary lifestyle or sitting all day at work,
GMO’s (shown to cause inflammation and other illness), stop using
vegetable oils, avoid caffeine, pasteurized dairy, and
processed/packaged/prepared foods.

Start:

Exercise, optimize vitamin D levels, As well as some of the recommendations below and doing Chi Gong, shown here.

Herbs: (Can also be used as simple spices)

Cayenne, chamomile, boswelia, cardamom, aloe (See my blog here on how to prepare and eat Aloe), and spices cloves, black pepper, ginger, rosemary and turmeric.

Foods:

Fermented vegetables, kefir, Avacado’s, beets, asparagus, pomegranate, Wild Alaskan Salmon (high omega 3’s), blueberries, Shiitake mushrooms, & garlic.

Teas:





Matcha green tea is the most nutrient rich and comes
in stone-ground unfermented powder. it has 17 times the antioxidants of
wild blueberries and 7 times more than dark chocolate. (click pictures
for links on the left.) Tulsi teas is also loaded with anti-inflammatory antioxidants.

Here are some more things you should do to further prevent dangerous inflammation:

1. Sleep

Sleep Deprivation causes inflammation possibly leading to Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and many other conditions.

2. Supplement Omega 3’s

These balance out the large amounts of omega 6’s in our modern diet
that cause too much inflammation. I like fermented cod liver oil for
this. (click pic for link)

 3. Green Vegetables

The enzymes, phytochemicals and nutrients will help to bolster and repair your cells. (See my breakfast blog here for my recommended greens)

4. Eating Probiotic Foods

Kefir, fermented vegetables, water kefir, kombucha, or at least supplement with probiotics – 80% of your immune system is in your gut

5. Hydration

Since our body is made up of more than 80% water it is important to hydrate. See my blog here on why and how to filter it. I like to put Himalayan pink salt in my water, (see my blog about Sole here) since we are in fact salt water beings. This also helps to strengthen bones.

6. Turmeric & Ginger Tea

Two powerful anti-inflammatories and my favorite herbs. As explained in my video here on how to make it, I like to add black pepper and coconut oil to increase the bioavailability of by 1000 times.

7. Epsom Salt Bath / Magnesium oil

Bath flakes are mostly magnesium and sulfate and over 80% of us are
deficient in it. It helps lower inflammation but also calms the mind and
body while detoxifying. See here how to make the magnesium oil to put on your skin everyday.

8. Essential oils

For relaxation (and lowering inflammation) I like to defuse lavender
or put peppermint on the back of my neck, which feels like soothing ice.
I also like to take a couple drops of Frankincense under my tongue
before my meditation, which helps for both inflammation and decalcifying the pineal gland. Here are some of the benefits of the top EO’s for inflammation:

1. Lavender –
this is probably the most famous essential oil for pain relief and
relaxation. It has anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and sedative
properties and it helps to relieve muscle tension and spasms, joint pain
and headache. Lavender is also one of my top 5 essential oils for
allergy relief. As an anti-inflammatory solution, lavender is great for
joint and muscle stiffness. To use as massage oil, add 5 drops to 10ml
of a carrier oil such as jojoba oil. A lavender bath or compress are
also effective for aching muscles.

2. Peppermint – good for muscle and joint pain, headache and nerve pain.

3. Frankincense – has anti-inflammatory properties and also acts as a mild sedative. It’s also used to alleviate stress and relieve pain.

4. Rosemary Essential Oil – As an anti-inflammatory
remedy, you can use it as a massage oil, especially to treat muscular
pains and rheumatism. Rosemary essential oil can help stimulate
circulation. It increases blood flow to the muscles and warms the
massaged area to reduce inflammation, as well as relieve pain. Adding a
few drops to a hot bath can not only help you combat headaches
effectively, but treat muscular and joint pains too.



Therapeutic Grade Organic Essential Oils (to set up a wholesale account email info@theartofunity.com)

To buy products:

– go to: www.mydoterra.com/newyorkcity/

– click “shop for products” in the top right

– click “Begin shopping” (after setting “English” and “United states” if that is where you are located)

– Then Click “Single Oils” and scroll down for the oil of your choice.

9. Supplements (taken daily as a preventative)

Astaxanthin & Resveratral – see my blog here for other supplements I personally take and recommend.

– Astaxanthin – This is my favorite supplement. It is one
of the most powerful Antioxidants, great for the eyes, brain health,
joint pain and arthritis, and a kind of internal sunscreen.
Unlike most other antioxidants it protects the outside as well as the
inside of the cell. While other antioxidants handle only 1 free radical
at a time, this one can handle up to 19. It is said to be 6,000 times
stronger than vitamin C, 500 times stronger than vitamin E, 3,000 times
stronger than resveratrol and quercetin. Unlike other antixoidants,
Astaxanthin will never become a pro-oxidant, meaning that once depleted
and exhausted most antioxidants, “switch teams” so to speak, and become a
pro-oxidant free radical. (click picture for a link)



− Resveratrol is a potent antioxidant found in
certain fruits, vegetables and cocoa that is emerging as a modern-day
fountain of youth. It works by preventing your body from creating
sphingosine kinase and phospholipase D — two molecules known to trigger
inflammation. The science surrounding this compound is so compelling
that it has become one of my all-time favorite antioxidants, and I
believe one that shows real promise of health benefits.

10. Acupuncture

Western medicine is finnaly catching up to prove the benefits of acupuncture.

11. Chi Gong / Tai Chi

Another thing TCM has always known that Western Medicine is catching up on. A recent study showed that Tai Chi can
reduce inflammation in breast cancer survivors. The focus with this
exercise is slow movement and deep breathing, thus reducing stress
levels and in turn, reducing inflammation (and disease).

12. Meditation

More and More the benefits of meditation are being proven that are mental as well as physical. Inflammation is just one of the physical benefits. Learn how to meditate here.

Problems with Most Conventional Inflammation Treatments

Conventional medicine will recommend anti-inflammatory drugs like
aspirin and NSAIDs when treating inflammation, but Dr. Mercola and many
others strongly advise against them. Dr. Mercola publicly warn against
these drugs in the late ‘90s, including about Vioxx, which ended up
killing more than 60,000 people from strokes and heart attacks.

Statins are also now frequently prescribed to individuals who have
normal cholesterol levels if they have elevated C-reactive protein
levels, to combat inflammation, and presumably reduce their risk of
developing heart disease.

But taking a statin in this case will NOT resolve the underlying problem
causing the increase in inflammation and will expose you to an
abundance of statin-related side effects.

The third drug often given to people with inflammation is the
corticosteroid prednisone. This immunosuppressive drug, though necessary
in some cases, is associated with serious long-term side effects such
as cataracts, bone loss, weakening of the immune system, and many
others. One of the most serious complications from prednisone is the
risk of osteoporosis, which occurs from the bone loss.

Although prednisone is indeed occasionally needed and can actually be
life saving, it is nearly always a poor choice to use for the long term.
Prednisone will cover up the disease, but it is the underlying
dysfunction — the cause of the disease — that must be repaired. (taken
from –
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/08/what-you-need-to-know-about-inflammation.aspx)

Source:

http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/inflammation.html

http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/23-ways-to-get-rid-of-inflammation-and-joint-pain.html

http://liveenergized.com/alkaline-diet-guides/anti-inflammation-diet/

http://www.naturalnews.com/047842_inflammation_natural_medicine_antioxidants.html

http://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/essential-oils-to-relieve-pain/

https://www.thefusionmodel.com/what-are-the-best-essential-oils-for-inflammation/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/02/02/anti-inflammatory-foods-herbs-spices.aspx

▶ How to prevent oxidation and inflammation. - YouTube

▶ How to prevent oxidation and inflammation. - YouTube

Published on 2 Jun 2014

A majority of disease today are caused by either a toxicity or deficiency.



Toxicity-
Eating the Western diet causes systemic inflammation that leads to all
sorts of problems including autoimmune disorders.



Deficiency- we
hear on TV how the sun is so horrible for us but, in moderation, it is
actually vital to healthy levels of vitamin D3.



The toxic
environment- air pollution is a serious concern today. There are ways
to ensure you are protected against this however.



oxidative metabolism is something that takes place in our bodies.



The
pancreas is designed to do many many things and if we live a toxic
lifestyle than it will wear out- we need to help the body not tax it.



Respiration, Perspiration, Excretion of bodily wastes is a way to manage the PH level of your blood.



Inflammation is the bodies healing process-



Aging=Oxidative Stress



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Histamine, neutrophil & rolling and adhesion to endothelial layer

Published on 10 Jul 2014

Isolated blood neutrophils are perfused over a histamine activated endothelial monolayer. The neutrophils are shown to first roll and then firmly adhere to the endothelium. This process occurs because histamine causes the endothelium to express the adhesion molecule P- selectin on its surface.

P-selectin on the endothelium then interacts with the neutrophil counter receptor P-selectin ligand which is always expressed on the neutrophil suface. The close interaction then allows other adhesion molecules such as ICAM-1 to cause the neutrophils to adhere more firmly and stop rolling. The process is then followed by the movement of the neutrophils out of the blood and into the tissue called transmigration. The neutrophils can clear infection from the tissue but can also cause unwanted damage. Neutrophils are important inate immune cells which are important in psoriasis

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