Which foods cause inflammation and which foods reduce it?

And why does it matter?

That's what we'll be looking at in this video and next.

Excessive inflammation may play a role in a number of leading causes of death and disability,

including type-tree diabetes, obesity, heart disease.

But what are the stimuli that jumpstart, the deleterious inflammatory cascade?

You typically hear about the pro-inflammatory nature of a chronic high-fat diet, but the

inflammatory effect may not be limited to chronic intake, may be evident after the consumption

of a single meal.

Within hours after eating an unhealthy meal, inflammatory markers like IL-6, interleukin-6,

can skyrocket doubling within six hours.

The majority of studies show an increase in IL-6 after the consumption of a high-fat meal.

But the meals they tested weren't just filled with meat, eggs, dairy, and oil, but also junky refined

carbs like white flour and added sugar.

Yes, give people essentially straight butterfat and no carbs, and you can still get a spike

in inflammation within hours proving the added fat itself is pro-inflammatory, but give people

straight sugar water without any fat, and you can get the same thing.

Proving the added sugar is pro-inflammatory too.

Why should we be concerned with the inflammatory responses after unhealthy meal ingestion?

Because substantial research points to the notion that persistent, low-grade inflammation

is an underlying factor in several

high mortality chronic diseases that diet can contribute to or attenuate that inflammation.

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