Your Body Never Lies

It's kind of scary knowing that almost everyone I talked to is either sick, or knows someone who has this dreaded cold.  Are we all connected? I've had the fever, exhaustion, low energy that turned into sleepless nights due to a hacking cough for the past 12 days.  My body is telling me something.

Well, what is it?

It's time for a clean slate, a new start.  What I was doing, wasn't working.  It wasn't creating the level of success that is meant for me.  I was starting to live old habits again - old thought patterns.  Ones that kept me playing small, putting labels on things/relationships, trying to control, force, or down right be a person on her pedestal.   So getting sick, put me in bed, wondering why am I sick, what is my body telling me. 

Now I know.

There is a life for everyone one of us - to claim, to live, to embrace, to love.  I love my life, I really do. But it's coming at a cost of playing it small, and I'm done with that.  There are many people that are feeling what I am, and it's my drive to share with them that there is a better way.  Yes, we are all connected.

Our bodies never lie.  If you don't trust your mind, your ego, or yourself because our mind can create and manipulate to keep itself safe, at least you can trust your body.  It doesn't lie.

Inflammation...good or bad?

Pick a disease. Any disease. You’ll quickly discover that it involves inflammation as a cause, a promoter of the disease process or a way of ramping up symptoms.

Often misunderstood, inflammation does have an upside. It’s part of our immune system’s response to infection, and without inflammation we would die after the most minor infection. Inflammation also stimulates the healing process after we suffer an injury, whether a cut on the thumb or a broken bone.

But chronic inflammation is like the dark side of the force. It eats away at our tissues and increases pain. This type of inflammation damages the heart, breaks down cartilage in the joints and stimulates the growth of cancer. It’s what makes the common cold and allergies feel so awful. And chronic low-grade inflammation is even worse because of its silent damage.

Even the aging process seems related, at least in part, to uncontrolled inflammation. According to recent research, human beings have more inflammation-regulating genes compared with dogs, cats and most other animals, which is why we humans have longer lifespans than almost every other species. These genes work by protecting against free radical damage, thereby reducing inflammation and cellular aging.

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Sources:

[1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/anti-inflammation-genes-linked-longer-lives

[2] Schwarz F, Pearce OMT, Wang X, et al. Siglec receptors impact mammalian lifespan by modulating oxidative stress. eLife, 2015;4:e06184

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