Body and Mind Connection - Inflammation

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@amiablePeace77  What do you find helpful in preventing inflammation in your body?

I avoid sugar and starchy foods because they create unhelpful biomes in the intestine. Yogurt is a good fermented food.

@amiablePeace77

The best move I've made was to give up all soda's a few years ago. Started anabolic cooking and dropped weight. Shouldn't be a problem to incorporate some anti inflammatory foods in the mix.

@amiablePeace77 the best way I stop inflammation in my body, is to not injure myself 😁😁😁 I try to stay as healthy as I can 💗 I have never heard of a anti inflammatory diet though, I'll have to look it up 💗

gives Ami a giant tiny hug 💗💗 hope your ok

I'm so happy to see a post about brain inflammation! I'm certified in the Biology of Trauma 🙋 

This is such an important topic for me because I've been struggling with a high amount of brain inflammation for about 8 years, and only very recently found out it was brain inflammation. My brain inflammation was caused by intense psychological and emotional stress. It's rarely mentioned anywhere that stress can cause brain inflammation, which is why I would've never suspected that my symptoms were related to that. 

I want to share the possible causes discussed in my training here:

● Direct Head Injury (Physical trauma with or without concussion)

● Indirect Head Injury (Whiplash)

● Intense Psychological or Emotional Stress

● Intestinal Permeability (Lipopolysaccharide [LPS] in bloodstream crosses blood

brain barrier)

● Gluten Sensitivity

● Oxygen Deprivation

● Chronic Infection

● Nervous System Infection (Meningitis)

● Heavy Metal Toxicity

As well as the common symptoms: 

● Brain fog

● Light sensitivity

● Low tolerance for stress

● Decision fatigue

● Brain feels like it shuts down (lights go off)

● Word searching

● Difficulty staying present and engaged (focusing)

● Forgetfulness

● Clumsiness

● Delayed reaction time

● Mentally not as sharp

● Headache

● Coordination issues

● Psychosis

● Depression, anxiety

● Get relief with eye support somatic exercises

A great thing to do is to start tracking our brain inflammation during the day, as well as sleep, food intake. We can then start to pinpoint causes, and make changes. It can also be caused by certain activities we do, or when we have emotional discussions, hence why tracking might really help.

For example, I notice that when I go to bed later than usual, I get brain inflammation in the morning. So a consistent sleep routine is essential for me.

A great somatic exercise that usually helps is doing this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KaFqjkcY_4A . For a minimum of 30s to a minute, but you can do it for as long as it is needed. Meditation also helps for me.

27-28 minutes naps in complete darkness, with no sensory distractions can also really help. For a bad brain inflammation day, taking a nap every 3-4 hours might be necessary. 

I hope this is useful! Sending love to anyone who is dealing with this 💖 

Lex

@amiablePeace77

What do you find helpful in preventing inflammation in your body?

Being healthy. In other words, have a routine for different times of the day (morning, noon, evening, night) and be as consistent with your routine as possible. In your daily routine, try to be as productive and active as possible without overdoing anything of course and include things like exercise, meditation, sleep, eating healthy meals that fill you up, staying hydrated by drinking (purified) water (I highly suggest including electrolytes powder in some of these water drinks to make them even more healthier and beneficial for you), healthy snacks in between meals like fruits and fruit smoothies as well as nuts, regular medical professional visits like doctors, dentist, etc so if there are any problems, inflammation or otherwise, you’ll be able to solve the problems as soon as possible. 

I’m sure there’s other ways but this is all I’ve got for right now :)

I have a lot of inflammation from various conditions. Not sure how much affects my brain, I do get brain fog but that's often connected with body faigue too,so it's fatigue overall. I find many about half of these things can make it worse. Exercise is definitely a trigger. So are many things in nature and I do have times where based on my symptoms or environmental factors I have to avoid being outside as much as possible (medical appointments sometimes mean I can't just stay home).

Anti-inflammatory diets - this one at least looks fairly reasonable. Still though even with this there's problems, fish? Would probably kill me from inflammation. Nuts and whole grains are not unusual triggers for others. Some fermented foods are triggers for me, others seem neutral. I found the comment about IBDs interesting, I think similar diets might be need during flares of other conditions too (ie. not this Anti-inflammatory diet).

Sleep, managing stress, striking a balance with news/social media sound good.

Personally what I do- try to get enough rest, pace myself appropriately, avoid some triggers completely, balance exposure to other triggers. Use medical treatments I have acees to as appropriate, although the system is making that more and more difficult.