inflammation

By Leo Shveyd, Co-Owner of Advanced Wellness The Importance of Blood Flow in Healing In the simplest terms, healing happens when increased blood flow circulates throughout the body (especially when directed to the injured tissue/area). Blood brings healing nutrients to the site of injury and...

If you don't manage inflammation properly, you'll never make any gains. Here's how to make this bogeyman bend to your will. Inflammation is fast becoming the bogeyman of the muscle-building world. In fact, it may even overtake cortisol as the frontrunner of known muscle killers. Is this...

Until recently, no one truly understood inflammation – what it is, its role in healing, its newly discovered role in muscle growth, and how and when and if to treat it. The standard protocol was as follows: Any time you injured yourself – from a cut finger, a bruised leg, or pair of...

Oxidative stress and inflammation are putative causes of chronic diseases, especially "new-age" conditions like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and various forms of cancer [1]. While they are problematic if left unmitigated...

YET ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID INFLAMMATION Gaining fat increases low-grade systemic inflammation, leading to a mountain of health problems. Sure, everyone but Lizzo knows that, but now we have another reason to avoid gaining fat: the resulting inflammation makes everything taste bad except junk...

THE ONLY WAY TO COMBAT THE INFLAMMATION EPIDEMIC If you trawl through medical data long enough and hard enough, you might begin to suspect that inflammation is the cause of virtually all disease. Asthma, several types of cancer, bone health, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, eczema...

Role of Anti-Inflammatory Mitokines in Aging: Mitochondria, immunosenescence and inflammaging: a role for mitokines? "A global reshaping of the immune responses occurs with ageing, indicated as immunosenescence, where mitochondria and mitochondrial metabolism play an important role. However...

by Darley Stewart You probably hear a lot about inflammation and inflammation dieting, but it can be hard to separate the facts from the noise. Common health problems–everything from heart disease to arthritis to dementia–are linked to increased levels of inflammation and oxidative damage, which...

by Darley Stewart You probably hear a lot about inflammation and inflammation dieting, but it can be hard to separate the facts from the noise. Common health problems–everything from heart disease to arthritis to dementia–are linked to increased levels of inflammation and oxidative damage, which...

If you have been weight lifting for a year or more and read magazines and the internet for information, you probably have come across the topic of inflammation. You have certain people in the industry promoting anti-inflammation for fat loss and muscle growth and other industry experts...

By: Matt Weik While you may no longer be a spring chicken, you’re by no means old. Yet, when you wake up each morning, you feel like you’re 96, and just about every part of your body hurts. Why? There are actually some valid reasons why you’re stiff and sore when you wake up, and many of them...

What Is A Cytokine Storm? Cytokine Storm is a severe, life-threatening reaction to infections and diseases that can damage the lungs, causing pneumonia, respiratory failure and even death. Recent research has shown that Cytokine Storm can also damage other organs in the body, including the...

For athletes to continue to push the limits in performance, they must first push the limits of their training. Maintaining peak physical condition is especially important in non-team sports. When it’s you versus the bar, the track, or the opponent across from you; the days you skipped training...

Normally, short-term inflammation is a natural process that plays an important role in healing and cellular repair when you’re injured or sick. However, it can also be bad, very bad, depending on the cause and duration. This is known as chronic low-key inflammation, and plays an integrative...

Normally, short-term inflammation is a natural process that plays an important role in healing and cellular repair when you’re injured or sick. However, it can also be bad, very bad, depending on the cause and duration. This is known as chronic low-key inflammation, and plays an integrative...

Inflammation has been a buzzword for quite some time now, and headlines link it to all sorts of health complications. But what is it? Where does it come from and how can we keep it at bay? And if you regularly follow health news you most likely see stories about which foods may cause or reduce...

Normally, short-term inflammation is a natural process that plays an important role in healing and cellular repair when you’re injured or sick. However, it can also be bad, very bad, depending on the cause and duration. This is known as chronic low-key inflammation, and plays an integrative role...

Suffering from a little muscle inflammation, work it out by pumping out another rep or two. Exercise may be the key to reducing muscle inflammation, according to a study by a group of Duke University biomedical engineers who showed that human muscle has the ability to fight off damaging effects...

When you overload your body with stressful factors such as poor sleep patterns and a hectic lifestyle, and over-produce inflammatory chemicals from compounds such as ultra-processed carbohydrates and vegetable oils, it can cause some real damage and lead to a never-ending battle to lose weight...

What causes, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS)? Why does it usually get worse the second day after you train? It was once thought that DOMS was caused by the buildup of lactic acid after a hard exercise session or when the trainee was unaccustomed to training and ?overdid? it. Newer research...