You’ve probably heard that inflammation is a bad thing.
So you take an anti-inflammatory. You change your diet. You cut out inflammatory foods. You take supplements. You do whatever you can to bring inflammation down.
But what if we’ve been looking at inflammation all wrong?
Here’s the deal: inflammation itself isn’t the enemy. It’s actually a very sophisticated process your body uses to respond to injury, infection and other threats.
The problem happens when the inflammation process doesn’t resolve on its own.
That’s where things get really interesting.
Your body has three phases of inflammation and the third phase is called resolution—the point where the inflammatory response winds down, the debris gets cleaned up and healing can actually begin.
Normal anti-inflammatories suppress or block inflammation. But there’s a group of molecules you may not have heard about that actually resolve the process. They’re called specialized pro-resolving mediators, or SPMs.
SPMs help signal to your immune system that the job is done. They’re made from omega-3 fatty acids, but they’re not the same thing as fish oil.
And here’s the part that really caught my attention.
Even if you’re taking omega-3s but your body is using them up faster than it can keep up with, then chronic inflammation just stays.
It’s a little like trying to fight a house fire with a garden hose.
If you’ve been wondering Why won’t my inflammation go away? Could chronic inflammation be stuck in the body’s healing process? Are omega-3 supplements enough?
This episode is going to change the way you think about inflammation.
Maybe the goal isn't to stop the inflammation process. Maybe your body needs help finishing the job.
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