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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Chronic Inflammation: Deadly Prelude to Serious Disease

Besides being potentially deadly, what do diseases as seemingly different as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease have in common?

One word: inflammation.

Increasingly, researchers are pointing their collective finger at this familiar biological process. Cardiologist Chauncey Crandall, M.D., says he now recognizes signs of inflammation that were a prelude to his own heart problems, which were diagnosed at age 48.

He was flying home from a conference when his shoulder started to hurt. “I assumed I had strained it, lifting a suitcase, but now I realize that I had been experiencing pain in every joint in my body for about three months,” recalls Dr. Crandall, author of No. 1 Amazon bestselling the book The Simple Heart Cure and chief of the transplant program at the world-renowned Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great post,but changing peoples ways is never easy,especially when it comes to what they eat.