Everyone is talking about inflammation these days: what causes it, and what it can do to your body. Although there can be many things behind the chronic inflammation that causes serious health issues, there’s a big one you can do something about [...]
As a young girl I grew up in Australia and spent my days in the sun. We didn’t know back then about sunscreen or the long term effects of staying in the sun. I had no idea that I would find out [...]
Inflammation is a quickly becoming recognized in conventional medicine as a key component of serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Inflammation is the body’s response to infection. Acute inflammation occurs almost immediately after trauma -- from a cut or [...]
As a culture, we’ve been conditioned to accept that joint pain and arthritis are natural signs of aging and are to be expected. Many women I talk with accept this and over time when their pain intensifies, they reach for ibuprofen or [...]
Are you confused about the media messages around fat? If so, you aren’t alone. For a long time the media and marketing companies sent the message that fat is the enemy. More recent stories dispute that claim, and the result is that [...]
Birth control, hormone replacement therapy and more Hormones are the chemical messengers in the body, and for women diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), these messages may be inconsistent. SLE -- the most common form of lupus -- is an autoimmune disease [...]
Lupus symptoms and diagnosis Focus on feeling better Lupus is a disease that has proven in the past to be quite difficult to identify and control. Lupus is an autoimmune disease which causes chronic extensive inflammation. There are a number of types [...]
Over many years we have found that preventing or reversing inflammation is all about listening to your body. From that listening you can begin to learn first-hand what increases or reduces your body’s inflammatory response. You can cool your body’s inflammatory response [...]
Systemic or chronic inflammation has a domino effect that can seriously undermine your health. So how does it all begin? The Immune System and the Inflammatory Response Many experts now see inflammation as arising from an immune system response that’s out of [...]
