A inflamação e o seu papel noutras doenças?

... algumas crónicas:

https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-diet

Citando:
"We knew that regular exercise does reduce inflammation over the long term, but we also knew that acute exercise transiently increases inflammatory biomarkers during and immediately after exertion.” About a third of the benefit of regular exercise, they found, is attributable to reduced inflammation.

The anti-inflammatory effect of exercise was much greater than most people had expected. That raised another question: whether inflammation might also play a dominant role in other lifestyle illnesses that have been linked to cardiovascular disease, such as diabetes and dementia."

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"canakinumab, an orphan drug that blocks a specific pro-inflammatory pathway called IL-1beta. But some researchers suggest that the inflammatory process—a normal and necessary part of the natural immune response—has itself has been misunderstood. Scientists know that the process can be turned on and off, but have only recently understood that this doesn’t mean normal physiology will resume once the inflammation caused by infection, injury, or irritant has been shut down. Instead, the restoration of health is an active phase of the inflammatory process itself, facilitated by a little-known class of molecules called pro-resolving mediators—the protectins, resolvins, maresins, and lipoxins—brimming with marvelous, untapped, regenerative capacities.(...)"

10 Slimming/Anti-inflamatory Foods to Eat If You Sit All Day | TIME

Mais uma daquelas listas, algo questionáveis. De qualquer forma há estudos a indicar que estar sentado muito tempo tem efeitos inflamatórios e estes alimentos / ingredientes suprimem a inflamação (o foco não é emagrecimento como o título indicia mas supressão da inflamação):
10 Slimming Foods to Eat If You Sit All Day | TIME


Citando:

"Science backs this up: Prolonged sitting has been linked to everything from increased hunger and inflammation (which both lead to obesity and belly fat) to high blood pressure and high blood sugar. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “sitting is the new smoking,” now you know where it stems from. But the damage doesn’t stop there. In addition to these preventable diseases, spending too much time on your behind can also result in tight hip flexors, back pain, weak glutes, and rounded, sore shoulders which are all things that can decrease the effectiveness of your workout or lead to a disabling injury, says Piya Tony Vacharasanee, NASM, ACSM, of Body Space Fitness in New York City. All that from an innocent-looking swivel chair.
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But tweaking your diet may also help diminish some of the health risks associated with sitting. A number of nutrients have been shown to fight inflammation by “turning off” inflammatory genes. Add these recommended foods that follow into your diet to help ease some of the damage of your 9-to-5 and you’ll be on your way to a leaner, healthier you."

A lista está na ligação.

Pasta de dentes revolucionária

... Que ao reduzir os problemas na gengiva / placa bacteriana consegue reduzir os efeitos do processo inflamatório (que acaba por afectar o coração) com menos efeitos secundários que as estatinas, a aspirina e outros medicamentos usados:
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3850014/Revolutionary-new-toothpaste-not-removes-plaque-save-heart-attack.html
Citando:
"His research is estimated to have saved more than a million lives worldwide.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the professor added: ‘This could have policy implications for tens of millions of people alongside statins, aspirin and beta blockers and other agents that help lower cardiovascular disease.
‘The distinguishing thing in my mind about this is that it is a fairly simple thing to do and yet it could have a big impact. And there are no side-effects that we know of.’
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Created in the US, the special toothpaste removes twice as much plaque as rivals.
Levels of inflammation in those using it fell by 29 per cent – only slightly lower than the level of 37 per cent achieved by the use of statins.
Inflammation is measured by the high sensitivity C-reactive protein, a marker for heart attacks and strokes."