#117: How to improve chronic inflammation

The Dr. Shannon Show

Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT

Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Chronic inflammation is common in the fitness industry and can affect fitness results. Dr. Shannon discusses what inflammation is, how your body is affected by inflammation in your workouts, how to assess your chronic inflammation, and steps to take to resolve it. 0:00: Introduction 3:36: what is inflammation? 5:38: how does inflammation work during and after a workout? 15:24: importance of recovery for muscle growth 16:51: Symptoms of chronic muscle inflammation 20:10: recommendations ...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about chronic
0:06.2	inflammation. When I first started this podcast in April of 2021, it truly felt like I was fighting an uphill battle to convince people
0:18.0	and show them the science that it is not necessary to destroy your body in the pursuit of fitness.
0:24.3	And I often still feel that way like I'm fighting an uphill battle and I know it's still not
0:28.7	mainstream to understand some of the things that we talk about like how
0:31.9	calories and sweating aren't really that important
0:34.8	or that you don't have to lift super heavy weights to gain muscle or that gaining some muscle
0:40.7	isn't necessarily going to make you bulky or you don't have to do heavy compound lifts or that gentle on your body doesn't necessarily just mean yoga and Pilates, but gentle on your body can actually be super effective.
0:52.0	But I'm kind of excited because yesterday I'm. can actually be super effective.
0:52.8	But I'm kind of excited because yesterday I saw this post on Instagram from the Today Show
0:57.4	where they interview Jennifer Anison, obviously like an A-list celebrity, and she said, quote, the workouts I used to do were exhausting and
1:05.8	painful my mind used to tell myself that if I didn't do 45 minutes to an hour
1:11.1	workout I wasn't drenched, it wasn't enough.
1:14.4	I put my body through it.
1:15.7	And over time, breaking your body,
1:17.4	punishing your body that hard is just diminishing returns.
1:21.0	And I was like, oh my gosh, is Jennifer Anison and Evela member?
1:26.2	These are the things that we've been preaching for the past two years.
1:30.3	And it turns out she is not an Evela member but I think I would probably know if she was but it just goes to show that this message of working smarter not harder and that you don't have to destroy yourself in order to be fit
1:44.4	is becoming more and more mainstream which makes me so excited so
1:48.8	although I think this mindset is becoming more mainstream I think there are certain things that are still
1:54.6	misunderstood. One of them being how to structure a workout to make it both gentle on
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