It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

bouncer, or wear a mask pretending to be a member, or pry open a locked (unused) door that was left ...

In this situation, your club is no longer healthy and safe. Letting bad guys in (through what should be ...

digestive distress, and systemic inflammation just by choosing the wrong foods. And it’s not your fault, ...

what stays out. Increased gut permeability (and the ensuing inflammatory chaos) is linked not only to inte ...

media calls being “apple shaped”) is a clear risk factor for heart disease, high blood pressure, stro ...

with your hormones, even after decades of poor diet and in the face of a gut leaking like a sieve, ...

imbalance lead to digestive distress and can promote chronic disease, hypersensitivities, and autoimmune conditions ...

CHAPTER 7: INFLAMMATION: NO ONE IS IMMUNE “The thought of resetting my system so it didn’t crave sugar or car ...

to having complete relief from all of the other issues.” —Bethann M., Pleasant Lake, Indiana Our final Good ...

clear picture of what it actually is, or why it matters. Let’s tackle the first part. INFLAMMATION—HERE, THERE, ...

different subsets of inflammation (some healthy, some not so healthy), we’ll give you the rundown here: Rela ...

problems. Related to location Localized Systemic Mostly confined to a specific area of the body. “Full body,” characteri ...

(full-body) inflammation. GOT IMMUNITY? Before we discuss how chronic systemic inflammation can be devastating to your he ...

something that is “non-self” where it doesn’t belong, it will perform an immediate evaluation, which may then ...

police or chasing him out with a golf club. And if you happened to see him in your kitchen again the next d ...

come back together. Certain foods beat up, fool, or sneak past the “bouncers,” finding a way out of your dige ...

FIGHT FIRES AND FIX FLAWS Your immune system defends you against external invaders, but it also plays a cr ...

firefighters work very hard when they’re fighting a fire, but they also have periods of time w ...

In the “healthy immune balance” example, your firefighters respond to a four-alarm fire. They fight the b ...

demanding fire, they’re told that while they’re still expected to fulfill their normal firehouse repair an ...