{"id":3966,"date":"2022-06-28T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selahwellnessacademy.com\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2023-07-21T18:55:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T18:55:53","slug":"what-is-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redbirdnaturalhealing.com\/what-is-inflammation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Inflammation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Inflammation is the body\u2019s healthy response to injury or acute infection. If you break your arm, you want your body to send all of its efforts to that area so it can heal. With an infection, like food poisoning, your body creates inflammation to get that poison out as quickly as possible so that it\u2019s doesn\u2019t cause serious damage. This is why you have an inflammatory response! It can keep you alive and accelerate healing in certain situations.<\/p>\n
Inflammation becomes a problem when it doesn\u2019t go away after a threat subsides or shows up when there\u2019s no real threat at all. This is considered chronic inflammation, and it is one of the main underlying causes of many common symptoms and conditions.<\/p>\n
Chronic inflammation can have many causes: surgery, injury, aging, immune deficiency, long-term physical or emotional stress, to name a few. But, a diet containing sugar-laden and processed foods is one of the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation.<\/p>\n
If you have food sensitivities or allergies, you would add those foods to the above list. For example, if you have Celiac disease, anything containing gluten would be inflammatory.<\/p>\n
The SHAPE Program eliminates inflammatory foods and offers you an opportunity to discover food sensitivities and allergies. In Phase I of the program, your body gets a chance to cleanse toxins (and excess weight, if that is one of your goals) and significantly reduce chronic inflammation. Then, in Phase II, you start slowly adding back foods you eliminated in Phase I. While in Phase II, be sure to pay attention and make note of any inflammatory reactions.<\/p>\n