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Authors: Melissa Hartwig, Dallas Hartwig
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in the body.
The more body fat you have, the more of these inflammatory compounds your fat cells can secrete. So if you’re overweight, we can be pretty sure you’re also somewhat inflamed. Guess what? Belly fat is especially active in this process, contributing to inflammation more than fat stores in other areas (like your buttocks or thighs).
More specifically, however, we believe that silent inflammation isn’t so silent when you know what you’re listening for. This is a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) list of conditions and diseases linked to systemic inflammation or having an inflammatory component. If you experience any of these conditions or symptoms, there’s a pretty good chance you have some of that “silent” inflammation.
Related to Silent Inflammation
That’s a pretty long list, right?
It’s what we’ve been saying: managing the inflammatory status of your body affects your quality of life .
WHAT ABOUT GENETICS?
This entire book is devoted to the idea that food plays the most important role in your pursuit of optimal health, but it’s not the only factor. Lifestyle choices, exercise habits, your environment, and, of course, your genes also affect your health and predisposition for a variety of lifestyle-related diseases and conditions. But genes may play a different role than you think.
You hear folks saying, “Diabetes/high cholesterol/heart disease runs in my family!” as if to suggest that their destiny is predetermined. Most people believe that what is encoded in their DNA is unchangeable. The good news is that that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Your genetic makeup certainly plays a role in everything from height to eye color to health. But even more important than the genes in your DNA sequence is which of those genes get turned on. A gene that isn’t turned on doesn’t actually do anything. It’s the intersection of your environmental inputs and your genetics that is truly relevant to your health.
Epigenetics is the intersection of your genes and your environment.
Epigenetics is the study of gene expression—whether genes turn on or turn off, and how loudly their information is expressed. While we are all born with a certain code, we are also born with switches that tell that code what to do. Our environmental input (diet, exercise, air quality, etc.) activates those switches. Think about it this way:
Genetics loads the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.
Epigenetics is also influenced by physical and emotional stress. In fact, gene expression is impacted by how you respond to everything that happens in your environment, from air pollution to a move across the country to childhood trauma.
In short, you generally don’t develop diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease simply because of a defective gene or a familial predisposition. It takes the intersection of your genes and your environment to turn on those sequences of events.
This is good news.
It means we are not doomed by our genetics.
In the case of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease (among others), it means that those conditions are largely preventable.
Our gun may be loaded, but if we don’t pull the trigger with a poor diet, lack of exercise, inadequate sleep, excessive stress, and other unhealthy lifestyle factors, the chance of us developing one of those diseases is dramatically reduced .
So keep reading, because this book is devoted to keeping the safety on one of the biggest potential triggers in your environment—the food you put on your plate.
THE GOOD NEWS
The good news is that, much like with your hormones and leaky gut, even after decades of poor eating habits and years of systemic inflammation, most of the health consequences are highly reversible . You can reduce systemic inflammation, heal from most inflammatory conditions and catch up on those repair and recovery functions your body has fallen behind on.
However, some things may not always be totally
The more body fat you have, the more of these inflammatory compounds your fat cells can secrete. So if you’re overweight, we can be pretty sure you’re also somewhat inflamed. Guess what? Belly fat is especially active in this process, contributing to inflammation more than fat stores in other areas (like your buttocks or thighs).
More specifically, however, we believe that silent inflammation isn’t so silent when you know what you’re listening for. This is a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) list of conditions and diseases linked to systemic inflammation or having an inflammatory component. If you experience any of these conditions or symptoms, there’s a pretty good chance you have some of that “silent” inflammation.
Related to Silent Inflammation
That’s a pretty long list, right?
It’s what we’ve been saying: managing the inflammatory status of your body affects your quality of life .
WHAT ABOUT GENETICS?
This entire book is devoted to the idea that food plays the most important role in your pursuit of optimal health, but it’s not the only factor. Lifestyle choices, exercise habits, your environment, and, of course, your genes also affect your health and predisposition for a variety of lifestyle-related diseases and conditions. But genes may play a different role than you think.
You hear folks saying, “Diabetes/high cholesterol/heart disease runs in my family!” as if to suggest that their destiny is predetermined. Most people believe that what is encoded in their DNA is unchangeable. The good news is that that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Your genetic makeup certainly plays a role in everything from height to eye color to health. But even more important than the genes in your DNA sequence is which of those genes get turned on. A gene that isn’t turned on doesn’t actually do anything. It’s the intersection of your environmental inputs and your genetics that is truly relevant to your health.
Epigenetics is the intersection of your genes and your environment.
Epigenetics is the study of gene expression—whether genes turn on or turn off, and how loudly their information is expressed. While we are all born with a certain code, we are also born with switches that tell that code what to do. Our environmental input (diet, exercise, air quality, etc.) activates those switches. Think about it this way:
Genetics loads the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.
Epigenetics is also influenced by physical and emotional stress. In fact, gene expression is impacted by how you respond to everything that happens in your environment, from air pollution to a move across the country to childhood trauma.
In short, you generally don’t develop diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease simply because of a defective gene or a familial predisposition. It takes the intersection of your genes and your environment to turn on those sequences of events.
This is good news.
It means we are not doomed by our genetics.
In the case of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease (among others), it means that those conditions are largely preventable.
Our gun may be loaded, but if we don’t pull the trigger with a poor diet, lack of exercise, inadequate sleep, excessive stress, and other unhealthy lifestyle factors, the chance of us developing one of those diseases is dramatically reduced .
So keep reading, because this book is devoted to keeping the safety on one of the biggest potential triggers in your environment—the food you put on your plate.
THE GOOD NEWS
The good news is that, much like with your hormones and leaky gut, even after decades of poor eating habits and years of systemic inflammation, most of the health consequences are highly reversible . You can reduce systemic inflammation, heal from most inflammatory conditions and catch up on those repair and recovery functions your body has fallen behind on.
However, some things may not always be totally
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