What is low-level chronic inflammation?
Chronic low-levels of inflammation are the way your body responds to persistent, undesirable states of health such as long lasting infections, repeated injuries to your body through exercise, tooth decay or gum disease, an imbalance of various foods in your diet, or the presence of toxins in your environment. In some cases, you are actually continually suffering from infections, from hazardous chemicals or pollutants, or from physical injury from accident-work-sports, or from psychological worry and stress, and your body is responding to those malicious factors in your life. In other cases, your body is acting like it is under attack even though it is not. This can happen when you have developed something called an inflammatory cascade due to many factors, including simply an imbalance of the nutrients in your diet. The relative over-abundance of some foods and the scarcity of others can result in chronic persistent low levels of inflammation. People used to think inflammation was simp
