Inflammation is a "hot topic" in medicine. It appears connected to almost every known chronic disease.    ~Dr Mark Hyman

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So what exactly is inflammation?

It's how the body responds to outside threats. This may include things like stress, infection, injury or toxic chemicals.

Our body responds to injury by creating inflammation (as a protective mechanism). For example, if we hurt ourselves in some way it may be hot, swollen, red and we will have limited range of motion. The greek term for inflammation is 'itis'. This is why we have illnesses labelled as arthritis, tendonitis, colitis, etc....

One thing we need to remember is that inflammation may also be silently present in our body. We may not even know it's there. We need to learn to listen to our body because it will tell us whether we have inflammation.

Here are 10 signs and symptoms that indicate you have inflammation:

Christine

"Acupuncture doesn't have to be with needles"