"Many major diseases that plague us—including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and Alzheimer's—have been linked to chronic inflammation."
...and chronic inflammation has been linked to lack of physical exercise and poor diet.
Inflammation is helpful when rebuilding muscles and recovering from work. Inflammation is harmful when there's nothing to work on. The body goes haywire and you get all manner of problems.
The kinds of food you eat can contribute, but it is largely that we have an engine designed to work that we're perhaps letting idle in the garage, that seems to be the main problem.
Crohn's, for example, is a disease that manifests with severe inflammatory problems. One of the chief ways to keep it in check (not a cure, just one of the things that help) is significant exercise (fitness) and controlling food intake and quality.
You walk your dog... you need to "walk" your own self too.
Sort of, but whether it’s beneficial or pathologic is more complicated than whether it’s short or long duration.
Chronic or sustained inflammation is a sign of dysregulation, but acute inflammation can also be pathologic.
Moreover, the inflammation in physical exercise, in physiologic conditions, is actually beneficial (it’s physiologically angiogenic and anabolic). In other words, the benefits of exercise don’t just outweigh the harms of inflammation: rather, exercise can create well-regulated, physiological and beneficial inflammation.
Inflammation is as complex a topic as cancer (in fact the two are pretty much inseparable): it’s a fascinating beast!
This is completely true (even if it’s more complicated than it sounds), maybe you are getting downvoted because it’s obvious? I’m not sure. (biochemist)
