Hello everyone,

People act like inflammation just happens and that you can take something to get rid of it. They also talk as if it’s something out to get you—like some evil to be vanquished.

Common approaches to treating inflammation, including NSAIDs, Tylenol, Aspirin, Other anti-inflammatory drugs, biologics—and yes, even natural herbs like turmeric, and nutritional supplements like fish oil—are going about it backwards. They cut the process of inflammation without addressing what is causing the inflammation in the first place! While this can be useful in the short term, in the long-term this approach will not be successful.

An analogy would be if you had mice in your house. Picture yourself running around trying to clean up the droppings and little messes everywhere…without getting rid of the mice! This is what it’s like to treat the inflammation without handling the cause.

Let me explain more about what inflammation is and what causes it.

Inflammation is your body’s effort to bring blood flow and white blood cells to an area to clean up damage and/or resolve an infection.

We Find Three Primary Culprits Causing Inflammation:

1. Food Sensitivities and Digestive Imbalances

A lot of inflammation starts in the gut. We have seen repeatedly that when people eat foods they shouldn’t (based on lab testing and/or muscle testing), inflammatory markers go up. Just avoiding those foods and providing the necessary digestive acids and enzymes will resolve this cause of inflammation.

2. Insulin Resistance

This is a very commonly overlooked cause of inflammation. I’ve only seen a conventional medicine doctor test for the fasting insulin level ONCE in my whole career (and this was because the patient requested it)—if you haven’t brushed up on insulin resistance lately and why I need to know your fasting insulin level, you can read more about it here.

To fix this issue, what works the best is to adopt the Page Diet (take the free course here!), especially the Phase I diet which was specifically designed to help diabetes and insulin resistance. Then do 20-30 minutes of moderate exercise per day. I’ve gotten my best results just by following the Page Diet—not restricting my food, mind you—just making sure I eat the right types of foods. And I walk ½ hour a day.

3. Chronic Infections – Immune System Imbalance – Gut Issues

I’m lumping these together but the name of the game is a chronic immune issues or infection that has just never been properly handled. These are mostly caused by eating the wrong diet and not digesting properly. Once again, adopting the Page Diet and supplying the right nutrients to resolve bacterial, viral, parasitical and fungal immune challenges really helps.

As you can see, the best approach for inflammation is an individualized strategy to address what is specifically causing YOUR inflammation. And once you are handling these common causes of inflammation, your turmeric or fish oil (or what you have) will work much better!

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Keith Sheehan