Why do we see countries with high average cholesterol levels have comparatively low rates of heart disease?
The good news is more and more attention is starting to be placed on what I believe is the real cause of heart disease (and many other chronic diseases including cancer and diabetes): a pro-inflammatory state in the body as the result of a pro-inflammatory lifestyle. MSNBC recently had an article outlining a new $20 million study sponsered by the Federal government that is going to take a look at Fish Oil and Vitamin D supplementation and their effect on heart disease rates. I suspect that this study will show a decrease in those populations supplementing with Fish Oil and Vitamin D as these supplements have anti-inflammatory properties which help to offset the damage done by the typical American lifestyle. Let’s take a look at what we mean by a pro-inflammatory state in the body. We cause a pro-inflammatory state in two ways: our body’s stress response and food we eat. First we’ll talk about the stress response. The autonomic nervous system is the part of your nervous system that cont
