What is chronic inflammation hidden throughout the body?
Inflammation accelerates aging
Aging worsens inflammation

As you age, your constitution changes.
When genetics, infection, or strong stress overlap
Inflammation can easily occur due to various stimuli
Our understanding of inflammation has changed over the past 25 years.

'Depression', 'dementia', 'cancer', 'myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction', 'chronic headaches', 'unexplained tiredness', 'fibromyalgia', 'getting tired quickly', 'decreased cognitive function', 'knee discomfort', 'stiff joints and muscles', 'decreased endurance', 'strange feeling in the lower back', 'brain fog', etc. Perhaps the cause of all these symptoms is chronic inflammation.
Osteoporosis also occurs when bone density decreases due to inflammation, not calcium deficiency.
So, if you see signs of osteoporosis, you should treat the inflammation rather than taking calcium.
However, antidepressants or painkillers are often prescribed for these chronic problems.
Treating only the symptoms without any fundamental treatment or countermeasures will not improve the problem.

These days, common sense in the medical world is also gradually changing.
Even in the case of whether or not an illness occurs, it is believed that the internal problems of the person who caused the illness have a greater influence than the substances or microorganisms believed to be the cause.
It is true that simply supplementing deficient nutrients, killing the microorganisms causing the infection with medicine, and immediately excreting the excessive accumulated substances can actually burden people with chronic symptoms and worsen their symptoms.

Inflammation is a biological response that destroys pathogens and unnecessary substances that have invaded the body and disposes of waste.
So we absolutely need “inflammation,” and if it doesn’t work properly, we’re in trouble.
However, the inflammation that occurs to remove waste inside and outside cells or to move unnecessary substances can also damage our body or tissues.
For example, when bacteria enter the body, neutrophils, among white blood cells, become active and engulf the bacteria, releasing granules.
These granules contain free radicals such as active oxygen and nitric oxide, various proteins, enzymes, etc.
Neutrophils use these substances to destroy the cell membranes of pathogens and debris, harvesting and processing proteins.
It is at this very moment that one's own tissues or cells can also be damaged.

Recently, medical professionals have also been rethinking the relationship between chronic inflammation and disease.
In particular, the idea that periodontitis is closely related to diabetes and arteriosclerosis is widely accepted.
However, not many people pay attention to other inflammation or allergic reactions.
Again, long-term physical problems or illnesses are not easily cured by treating the symptoms alone.
It is important to find the root cause and address it.
And a large proportion of these root causes is chronic inflammation.
This book covers chronic inflammation, which is often overlooked, and hidden inflammation that can be discovered on your own.

When tissues containing pain receptors that sense pain become inflamed, a symptom called 'pain' occurs.
However, if there is chronic inflammation in tissues that do not have pain receptors, such as the brain, mental symptoms such as decreased brain endurance or depression occur without pain.
Because neither the intestinal epithelial cells nor the vascular endothelial cells have pain receptors, symptoms appear only after intestinal inflammation and arteriosclerosis become very severe.
It is well known that the intestines function as a barrier, but not only the intestines but also the brain, lungs, blood vessels, and vagina have barrier functions.
However, if this barrier breaks down, foreign substances can enter the body and cause inflammation.
If we don't fix the barriers, the same thing will happen again.
One factor that can interfere with this physical barrier function is allergies.
This is because mast cells involved in allergic reactions release histamine, which impairs barrier function.
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There's one more thing to know about inflammation.
Previously, inflammation was caused by pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, foreign substances, etc.
It was considered a phenomenon that occurred as the body reacted to ‘external factors’ such as harmful substances.
It was thought that immune cells only react when defending against external factors.
However, as mentioned earlier, inflammation occurs without external factors.
There are various substances inside the cells of our body.
Among them, some are safe when inside the cell and harmful when outside the cell.
For example, when the body is twisted, the force is not distributed symmetrically from left to right, but is biased to one side, causing blood flow to stagnate. When oxygen is not supplied to this stagnant area (where pressure is applied, swelling is applied, or knots are present) or waste products accumulate, the cells secrete substances that are harmful to the body.
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Once inflammation occurs in the intestines, the balance of intestinal flora is disrupted, starting a vicious cycle in which inflammation worsens.
Gut microbes break down nutrients like minerals into more absorbable forms and produce essential vitamins, hormones, enzymes, and more.
Therefore, when the intestinal flora is disrupted due to intestinal inflammation, digestion becomes poor and there is a deficiency of vitamins, minerals, hormones, and enzymes.
Therefore, immune function is not well regulated, which delays resolution of inflammation and tissue recovery.
The intestines are where 80% of the body's lymphocytes are gathered, and are also called the center of immunity.
So when intestinal inflammation occurs, the immune function is weakened and the inflammation becomes more likely to last longer.
When the intestines become inflamed, there are so many harmful effects that it can cause various problems in the body.
If you had a lot of items that fit the checklist, let's take another look at the list of causes above.
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Since the mouth is the organ for eating and speaking, it is normal to breathe through the nose.
So the nose is like a complex cavern inside, warming and moistening the air appropriately and filtering out foreign substances with mucus and cilia.
Breathing through your nose humidifies and purifies the air, eliminating pathogens and other contaminants while reducing the strain on your throat and body.
However, when you breathe through your mouth, cold or dry air enters your throat directly and pathogens are not filtered out.
Then, the lymphocytes cannot handle it and you are prone to developing tonsillitis.
Because the mouth becomes dry, bacteria can easily multiply, making it easy for gingivitis and cavities, which will be explained later, to develop.
So you have to consciously keep your mouth shut.
People who talk a lot, sing, or play sports are especially prone to mouth breathing and should be especially careful.
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It transmits commands from the brain to the internal organs, and also transmits signals from the internal organs to the brain.
So, information that the intestinal environment has deteriorated is also transmitted to the brain through this route.
Information that causes inflammation is also transmitted to the brain as nerve signals.
As these facts continue to come to light, the possibility is being raised that inflammation in the peripheral organs, such as the intestines, may cause various symptoms in the brain.
It is actually well known that influenza can cause brain symptoms or hallucinations.
Infection causes nerve inflammation, and it has recently been discovered that not only acute inflammation but also chronic inflammation can affect the nerves, causing abnormal behavior, hallucinations, and neurological symptoms such as 'loss of motivation' and 'loss of appetite'.
It has long been known that colds and pneumonia can worsen Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS = a disease in which the nerves that move muscles gradually become immobile) and various psychiatric symptoms.
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Vegetables and fruits are also rich in dietary fiber.
Dietary fiber is an ideal food that cleanses the intestines without rapidly raising blood sugar levels and even serves as food for intestinal bacteria.
Consuming dietary fiber will help you replenish your vitamins and minerals, as gut bacteria synthesize vitamins and help minerals be easily absorbed.
Therefore, by introducing fresh raw vegetables, fruit smoothies or juices into your regular diet, you can prevent nutritional deficiencies by consuming vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber while saving enzymes.
Vegetables and fruits only contain enough enzymes to digest the food itself, so they do not have the effect of replenishing enzymes in the body.
It only has the effect of saving enzymes.
In other words, the body's enzymes cannot be supplemented even with so-called 'enzyme foods'.
Therefore, your usual eating and lifestyle habits are important.
In addition to the raw vegetables and fruits mentioned so far, fermented foods such as soybean paste, fermented soybean paste, pickled vegetables, and pickled vegetables, as well as cold dishes and side dishes, also contain food enzymes that help with the digestion of the food itself.
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It even inhibits the function of excreting harmful substances, so harmful substances accumulate more and more.
That is, the body becomes chronically unhealthy.
A recent case made headlines when a U.S. court ruled that a herbicide contained in genetically modified foods could be carcinogenic, resulting in a massive settlement of over $300 million for a man who filed a lawsuit.
But even if it's not necessarily a herbicide issue, genetically modified foods themselves are unnatural substances, so there's a risk that they will create strange proteins in the body or become antigenic (a property that causes the body to recognize them as foreign and attack them).
So it can promote allergic diseases or autoimmune diseases.
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Among people with diabetes or borderline diabetes who already have problems processing carbohydrates, some experience rapid blood sugar spikes even when eating brown rice.
For such people, it is effective to control carbohydrate intake through a diet close to a carbohydrate restriction diet.
However, it is extreme and wrong to recommend that healthy people strictly limit carbohydrates.
It is also a mistake to assume that any carbohydrate is as bad as large amounts of white sugar.
Some people ruin their bodies by limiting carbohydrates to the extreme.
People who have difficulty digesting protein, especially meat, are at greater risk of developing increased levels of micronutrients in their bodies when following a carbohydrate-restricted diet.
Digesting food requires energy, and if you don't consume carbohydrates, you won't have the energy to do that, which can actually lead to inflammation.
Although a carbohydrate-restricted diet may be effective in lowering blood sugar, it may have a negative effect on other diseases.
In fact, there were patients who developed arteriosclerosis while continuing a carbohydrate-restricted diet.
It's important to remember that a low-carb diet isn't right for everyone and can be detrimental to your health depending on how you approach it.

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