INFLAMMATION
Inflammation is the smoke. Almost no one looks for the fire.
Aches that move around. Fatigue and brain fog that come and go. Flares with no clear pattern, and lab markers that run high while no one can say why. Chronic inflammation is the body responding to something. The work is finding what.
Start here
This one article is the whole map. Aaron walks through what inflammation actually is, the five things that drive it once it turns chronic, and where to start calming it. If inflammation is new to you, read this first.
Inflammation
Inflammation is a normal response of our body’s immune system … but it can sometimes run amok, leading to all kinds of problems.
What inflammation is actually telling you
Inflammation is the immune system’s response to a threat. In the short term it heals you. When it never shuts off, it starts to do damage, and that low, constant burn sits underneath a huge range of chronic disease.
Chronic inflammation is almost always downstream of a trigger the standard workup never looks for: a hidden infection, a food, a toxin like mold, a leaky gut barrier, or unrelenting stress. Suppressing the inflammation without removing the trigger is why symptoms come right back the moment the medication stops.
Symptoms patients bring us
- Joint and muscle aches
- Fatigue
- Stubborn weight
- Brain fog
- Skin flares
- Digestive issues
- Frequent illness
- Elevated CRP or other markers
3 in 5
of CIRS patients are linked to biotoxin exposure in water-damaged buildings, which is why CIRS and mold are so often named together.
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our diet is the single largest exposure your body has to inflammatory or anti-inflammatory signals, which is why Aaron starts most people with food. In seven short videos, about twenty minutes in all, I walk you through what real food is and how to begin without the stress.
