By: Dr. MIchelle DIllon, Naturopathic Doctor @ Charlotte Natural Wellness
What is the main cause of disease?
It’s something everyone has, but some body’s keep it contained better than others.
Inflammation is it’s name.
Disease starts in the body with inflammation. Once inflammation is present for enough time it begins to wreck the body and a cascade of events follow.
How do you know you have it?
Inflammatory symptoms include: stiffness in the joints, swelling, fatigue, malaise, headaches… really any symptom that relates to not feeling well or having a discomfort or pain of some sort.
Inflammation – takes hold and then is the seed that grows any disease. Disease is just – a dis- ease , it’s just when you don’t feel right. LIke something is wrong or imbalanced.
The key to finding good health is to find the causes of inflammation and eliminating the source.
Here are a few reasons / sources of inflammation:
1. The Diet –
There are a variety of inflammatory foods – which include sugar, fried foods, alcohol, dairy, and any food that is not digested properly for that person. Processed foods have reduced nutritional value but also lack the anti oxidants needed to combat inflammation.
What to eat?
Stick to GOD made foods, not MAN made foods. Foods you can look at and recognize where it came from. Look at a asparagus – the ingredients are asparagus no nutritional label needed. Comparing it to a snack bar – can you easily name all the ingredients? Not so much.
2. Inflammatory bacteria in the gut –
It can start from birth exposures to antibiotics, not washing hands, bad contaminated foods, pets, rare or uncooked meats or fish. Inflammatory bacteria is pretty common, most have them.
Think of the intestines (the gut) as a garden. If you’ve ever had a garden you know weeds do creep in. Think of these inflammatory bacteria as ‘weeds’ in your intestines. If you’ve never taken an anti-microbial (anti-weeder) herbal supplement for your gut, then you have probably never weeded or eliminated the bad inflammatory bacteria from there.
This bacteria causes inflammation. Inflammation causes organ imbalance and receptor site absorption issues.
Bottom line- if you have inflammation then you have imbalance in your digestion, your hormones, your body. Period.
3. Stealthy Viruses –
Another source of inflammation – can be stealthy or hidden viruses in your system. Some can include – Epstein Barr Virus aka Mono, CMV, Herpes, and now possibly Covid.
These viruses usually are contained by your security system – aka your immune system. Typically the immune system can keep these viruses contained, however during times of stress – lack of sleep, not eating well, not drinking enough water – the cells that contain these viruses open up and release the viral load. Which strains the system and body making you feel cruddy.
The key is to find which viruses they are, give the body what it needs to increase it’s security (improve immunity) so the security guards can find this invader(s) and lock them up for good.
Which is for you?
For some it is just one, some two, some all three.
Best to run some labs to determine what is the suspect and take it from there. As Naturopathic doctors we can read labs differently, not just looking for what is ‘normal’ but what is optimal. Then give the body what it needs to help fortify itself and eliminate the sources of inflammation.
Schedule online today for a free consultation. Get started on combating this inflammatory foe!