Aggravation & Inflammation
There is probably no other physical issue that costs our society as much hardship, pain, and money than inflammation. We would probably pay a lot more attention to inflammation if we would more strongly associate how large a part it plays in pain, premature aging, disease, and death.
Acute inflammation is a healthy part of our immune system and helps with the healing process in a traumatized area. Chronic inflammation happens when this process doesn’t get shut down properly (due to continued aggravation to this area or an outside invader such as too many vaccinations, continued use of antibiotics, bad air, or food components that aggravate our digestive tract and ones that our body cannot process properly and eliminate).
Chronic inflammation that is left to continue smoldering will eventually manifest itself as a disease wherever it’s at and depending on its behavior will spread to other parts of the body.
Question the accepted: we need to ask ourselves why after 1000’s of years are we suddenly encouraged to use all sorts of vaccinations? Why are so many of our children autistic? Why has there been a massive increase in antidepressant usage? Why are so many needing to be on brain control drugs as they get older (to keep them from nutting up on themselves or society)? Why do Americans consume most of the worlds pain meds? Why do our governing bodies piously fight this massive war on drugs (that are responsible for far fewer deaths) while putting their stamp of approval on ones that caused lots of death & changes in behavioral patterns? Why has chronic disease exploded in the past 40 years instead of shrinking? Could it be that we have a medical system built to benefit from drugs and diagnostic visits caused by inflammation? Why is it that medical university teaches very little on what causes inflammation, but instead what drug class to match with the area of inflammation and disease?
If most all chronic disease comes from inflammation and most anything that effects our body is from things that we either breath in, consume, or inject we have to look no further than this if we really want to figure it out.
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Treating the various ways inflammation prevails itself such as cancers, heart disease, brain disorders and digestive problems has developed into a huge industry and if the inflammation starts to disappear, so does this band aide industry’s profits.
Acute inflammation: this is the initial puffiness surrounding an injured, or traumatized area and is a healthy part of our immune system and part of the recovery process.
Chronic inflammation: is simply when the above does not turn off properly, or if something continues to trigger an immune/inflammatory response over a lengthened period of time, it then becomes the potting soil for the seed of disease, whether, brain, muscular, skeletal or our vital organs.
Inflammation can be chronic joint inflammation prevailing itself as arthritic conditions, inflamed blood vessels stiffening and causing vascular/heart disease, as well as organs of the body eventually having a cancer named after them once inflammation has been there long enough to be a diagnosable condition such as pancreatic, lung, liver, or esophageal cancer. Most times when the inflammation in a particular area gets a name, it has had something happening to it for a long time and it has finally come to a boiling point. It’s at this point that it can be diagnosed and named after the body part it’s originating from.
Pain Therapy tip: most chronic pain stems from inflammation and if you can find the site the inflammation is at, cool it down with an ice pack and if you don’t have an ice pack, use a cold pack of rice. Take an anti-inflammatory such as Ibuprofen. The idea is to shrink down the puffiness of the inflammation in the area the problem is stemming from, thus lessening the pressure on nerves in this area.
Finding the source of inflammation is like backtracking back down a trail to find where you took a wrong turn. Do not look for inflammation but instead look for what is aggravating your body part or system, when you find this, you have found the source.
Aggravation gives birth to inflammation and continued aggravation can grow what was once a small problem into a major issue. You starve inflammation by getting rid of the aggravation.
