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

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agree.


WHY IT MATTERS


The reason we are so adamant about
reducing chronic systemic inflammation is
that it has been clearly implicated as a
causative factor for most lifestyle-related
diseases.


Medical researchers have long known that
a cluster of symptoms (labeled “metabolic
syndrome”) were highly statistically
correlated, often occurring together and
increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke
and diabetes. What they didn’t know for a
long time, however, was exactly how they
were related. They used to think that obesity
caused diabetes, that high cholesterol caused
heart attack, that high blood pressure caused
stroke, and that maybe diabetes caused
obesity too, but there was no unified theory to
put all of these pieces together.

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