If somebody was having issues with a weakened immune system, and also dealing with a chronically higher baseline level of inflammation, are there any known ways to strengthen the immune system while reducing or at least not increasing baseline inflammation? Is that even possible or is some level of inflammation unavoidable?
Would it depend on the specific inflammatory factors that are already causing the higher baseline response?
I know there’s some research about running reducing inflammation, but it also triggers some inflammation? Is the acute inflammation triggered by running tied to longer term reductions in inflammation?
I found out that all my life I’ve been intolerant to gluten, while completely unaware.
It manifested itself in severe gastroesophageal reflux disease, body wide inflammation, and it provokes my psoriasis (autoimmune).
I had no way of knowing because none of the symptoms presented in the way dietitians, doctors, gastroenterologists, immunologists could make a connection.
It’s just a personal anecdote, but something to reinforce with others are saying, where you could examine your diet a bit to start.
Edit: I stumbled ass backwards into figuring this out for myself, but it was because I started to cook fresh to lose weight. My rule was I could have anything I wanted to eat on the condition that I made it myself and I found after a while, it was just easier to boil potatoes or rice than to fuck around with dough.
As I carried on in my fitness and weight loss and cooking journey, so many of my conditions magically went away and I assigned it to the fresh eating and weight loss but it wasn’t that!
The day I decided to treat myself with beef and barley soup was the day I discovered. My body erupted and every condition came back in force! The pressure filled gurgling acid was immediately there, burning my throat like lava, which I had not suffered for months
It turns out I had inadvertently cut wheat and barley and gluten out of my life by accident, and gave my body a long enough time to recover, that by the time I reintroduced it to my diet I couldn’t ignore that it was the problem the whole time!
I’m not saying your problem is gluten, I’m saying it could be somewhere you never thought to look, and all the specialists told you you were crazy for thinking about.
Thanks! I don’t do gluten free, but I do try to avoid wheat/gluten and simple carbs in general, but can’t always resist the temptation even though I know I should avoid it.
One of my coworkers brings in these amazing baked goods a few times a year. Happened yesterday and I couldn’t resist. I did manage to limit myself to one, and took the others home for my family. Still seemed to have some increased redness/flushing afterwards. I don’t think it’s the only thing going on but that’s kinda what I meant when I said it seems like my baseline level of inflammation always seems to be higher than it ever was been in the past.
It’s not just with gluten, but it’s anything that spikes an inflammatory response, like pushing myself to do too much or stress. It’s like if I normally had a cup that was always half full before, things would fill it, but it never actually spilled. Now it’s like it’s always full to the brim, and the things that used to be no big deal now cause it to overfill, and set me back for days at a time.