Chronic Inflammation – The Common Denominator in Nearly Every Deadly Disease

“People are most familiar with acute inflammation. This is the redness, warmth, swelling, and pain around tissues and joints that occurs in response to an injury, like when you cut yourself. When the body is injured, your immune system releases white blood cells to surround and protect the area…In contrast, when inflammation gets turned up too high and lingers for a long time, and the immune system continues to pump out white blood cells and chemical messengers that prolong the process, that’s known as chronic inflammation.”

Gut to Brain – How Your Food Controls Your Behavior

Our gut is made up of microbiome which the The National Human Genome Research Institute refers to as a “collective genomes of the microbes (composed of bacteria, bacteriophage, fungi, protozoa and viruses) that live inside and on the human body”. Between 1990 to 2003, an international team of researchers accomplished an internal mapping of all the human genes in the human body in an effort known as the Human Genome Project.