What if you’re free to fight inflammation by adjusting your diet?
Butchronic inflammationbuilds over the years and it’s not always easy to identify.
Frank Hu, PhD, MD, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard T.H.
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It’s like a smoldering of the arteries instead of a big fire, Hu told Verywell.
Polyphenols are found in many of the other plant-based foods in the anti-inflammatory eating pattern.
Hu said that scientists don’t fully understand the biological mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory diet at this point.
An anti-inflammatory diet might also work by improving insulin sensitivity or promoting a healthy gut microbiome, Hu added.
“It’s like a big jigsaw puzzle and we only have some of the pieces.”
It has to be a holistic approach rather than a magic bullet approach," Hu said.
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