#19 Eat For Inflammation - with Dr Jenna Macciochi

<p>Today we have Dr Jenna back with us - this time to talk about Eating for Inflammation - you might wonder why I have an immunologist here to talk about inflammation - that will become very clear throughout our conversation.</p><br /><p>In today's podcast we talk about inflammation as a concept - why it's becoming so popular in the medical literature and why it's so relevant to a host of different medical specialties.</p><br /><p>Today we cover the following:</p><ul><li>What do we mean by inflammation?</li><li>The benefits of inflammation</li><li>Symptoms of inflammation imbalance</li><li>How we measure inflammation</li><li>Stopping the inflammation triggers</li><li>The microbiome and inflammation</li><li>Obesity and inflammation imbalance</li><li>Sugar and inflammation</li></ul><p><br /></p><p>If I was to summarise our conversation in a dietary way of life - it would be the Mediterranean diet.&nbsp;As we alluded to in our conversation, the Mediterranean diet is known to be anti-inflammatory, and now you have an understanding of what we mean by anti-inflammation.</p><br /><p>Inflammation isn't something that we need to radically remove entirely, its use in human biology needs to be understood.&nbsp;But in the context of our modern lifestyles we are usually out of balance.</p><br /><p>If you have a copy of my new book -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008316317/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thedocskit-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0008316317&amp;linkId=a0904fef6c6c8ec8bced87afc7de2598" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eat to Beat Illness</a>&nbsp;- make sure you check out the page where I have a diagram looking at what is pro and what is anti-inflammatory in our modern world.</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>