LDL cholesterol tends to be looked at as “the problem” regarding vascular disease risk.  In reality, it is only part of the risk.  What is more important than simply LDL levels is the size of the particles.  Two persons with the “same” LDL level can have very different vascular disease risks. The LDL listed on […]

Modern humans have always had the belief, conscious or subconscious, that they could lead a less-than-optimal lifestyle and yet health care could prevent the ill effects.  This is particularly true thinking about medical care.  Why eat an optimal diet when the unhealthy food is so good?  Exercise is more effort than I want to put […]

We previously discussed how DAMPs or damaged associated and PAMPs or pathogen associated molecular patterns can chronically activate inflammation.  The damage associated referring to tissue components released from degenerative tissue such as joints.  The pathogen associated referring to chronic infections such as in the gut. In this 3rd blog on what triggers chronic inflammation we […]

What is Triggering It? In the introduction to this series of blogs on inflammation I mentioned that understanding and reducing its impact comes down to 2 points: In response to what is triggering it, these factors can be helpful in response to infection and in resolving injury, or harmful in response to chronic lifestyle triggers […]

Inflammation is a basic part of protecting us against infection and inducing repair after injury.  It literally is an important process to allow us to survive in our environment.  Unfortunately, the inflammatory process can be activated by the wrong circumstances and persisting long after it should have been quieted.  When this occurs, inflammation literally switches […]