Occasional injuries are part of the human experience, and healing is the body’s self-repair process. Healing begins with inflammation, which nature uses to clean up damaged tissues and protect against infection. So if inflammation is beneficial, why are so many modern diseases characterized by chronic and unhealthy inflammation? This revised edition of The Inflammation Syndrome answers a major part of this important question. Chronic inflammation underscores and promotes virtually every disease, affecting millions of people, yet inflammation is also a symptom rather than the fundamental cause of these diseases. When we dig deeper, we find that chronic inflammation is the consequence of an injury to the body, combined with nutritional imbalances.
