March 28, 2024

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How to Reduce Inflammation

Inflammation has gotten a lot of buzz in recent years and has drawn concern among health experts as to its negative long-term effects. 

Just the word inflammation sounds unpleasant. When something is inflamed, it’s irritable, sore, and red. It sounds uncomfortable, and it can have serious negative health effects. 

Most people don’t know what inflammation is your body’s immune system response. It’s a way of naturally healing injuries and helps to fight off infection. When your body’s immune system is activated, more fluids and activity happen inside of your body. More energy goes to the damaged body part, which becomes inflamed as a result. 

However, inflammation isn’t always good. Sometimes, your body thinks it is injured when it’s not. Stress, anxiety, overuse, and other things can cause inflammation. When there is nothing to heal, the activity in your body is taxing on your organs, joints, muscles, and arteries. 

Reducing inflammation is something many health experts are focused on. Finding ways to cut down on inflammation can help you stay in better shape for longer and keep your body in better condition. 

Common Inflammation Triggers

Whenever you sustain an injury, your body triggers inflammation as part of its immune response. It wants to deal with the injury to make you recover as quickly as possible. Also, when you aren’t living a healthy lifestyle, your body can interpret the stress your body is under as some sort of virus or infection. People who don’t get enough sleep, don’t eat the right foods, are stressed out from work and other obligations can experience high levels of inflammation. 

Ways to Reduce Inflammation

There are things you can do to reduce the things that are causing inflammation in your body. Most of them are common sense and easy to do. Here are some tips on reducing inflammation. 

Step 1 – Get some rest

If you’re constantly stressed out from work, home obligations, and other factors, it’s likely you have too much inflammation in your body. To fight this, you should get more rest. Too many people go without proper sleep every night. They wake up tired and then go through stressful days. Without sleep, your body doesn’t have time to recover and reduce naturally occurring inflammation. Try to get eight hours of sleep every night. Instead of watching that show after the kids go to bed, put yourself to sleep and see how you feel in a week or two. 

Step 2 – Eat a Healthy Diet

The food you eat has a major impact on inflammation. Some foods are anti-inflammatory. The more you eat these, the harder it will be for inflammation to build up in your body. Things like fruits, vegetables, fish, healthy seeds, and nuts all help with inflammation. Likewise, you can eat ginger, garlic, blueberries, and turmeric to keep levels normal. 

Step 3 – Keep Your Blood Sugar in Check

Americans eat way too much sugar. This we know already. Diets high in sugar lead to inflammation. Stay away from junk food and you’ll feel better about yourself. You’ll have more energy and your body will have its immune system ready to go for when a real problem like a viral infection comes along. 

Step 4 – Exercise

Conditioning your body is a fantastic way to fight off inflammation. When you exercise regularly, you’re training your body’s immune response. You’re telling your immune system that this run or these pushups are something that’s going to become routine, so your body will stop triggering such a dramatic inflammatory response. You become more resistant to inflammation triggers. 

Exercising and a healthy diet also help you lose weight. People who are carrying too much weight around often experience inflammation levels that are too high. It’s easier for them to become injured and recover from any injuries. 

The Use of Peptides for Inflammation

Researchers have been exploring the use of peptides to reduce and control inflammation for years. One peptide, in particular, NAD+ has gotten a lot of recent attention for its potential health benefits. Research indicates that, as NAD+ increases, the body is better able to modulate inflammation. It’s also believed to aid in immune defense, DNA repair, and energy conversion. Finally, NAD+ controls the production of PGC-1-alpha, a protein that protects central nervous system cells from oxidative stress.