Inflammation

Inflammation plays a central role in healing, but left to run wild, this process can lead to arthritis, heart disease, and Alzheimer's.

Inflammation is like a fire in your body you cannot see or feel. It's a smoldering process that injures your tissues, joints, and blood vessels, and you often do not notice it until significant damage is done, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. The damage might show up as arthritis, heart disease, stroke, and even Alzheimer's disease.

However, inflammation is not evil per se. It has an important role in how your immune system keeps your body safe and healthy. "The goal is to keep inflammation in check and not let the fire run wild," says Dr. Luster.

Good versus evil


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Mind Body Medicine

Your body is trying to tell you something

Illness is a message from your body. Are you covering up the symptoms? Isn’t now the time to start getting down to the root cause of how you’re feeling?

As a health care provider, I’ve seen and experienced first-hand that the human body interacts with its environment with deep intelligence.

Your body created your panic attacks. Your anxiety. Your lethargy and moments of extreme unhappiness. All of your symptoms are showing themselves on purpose.


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Alcohol and Cancer

When it comes to advice about lifestyle issues that affect health, I rarely think in terms that are black or white. There are exceptions — it is hard to argue against the benefits of regular physical activity and nothing good can come from cigarette smoking. However, for most other things, including use of alcohol, things aren’t so straightforward. Now if I was a specialist who mainly saw the negative effects of alcohol misuse — such as liver specialists who care for people with acute and chronic liver injury or trauma surgeons who see the outcomes of drinking and driving — maybe it would be simpler. But for most of my patients, alcohol is a normal part of life, and has both good and bad attributes.

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Things to Remember When You’ve Lost Your Motivation

The biggest and most complex obstacle you’ll ever have to overcome is your mind. If you can overcome that, you can overcome anything.




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