Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed

science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

How's it going, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be discussing the topic of inflammation and

inflammatory food. So we're going to talk about what inflammation is, what it does in our body,

the purpose that it serves, why we experience inflammation, some of the underlying causes

of inflammation, the difference between acute and

chronic inflammation, because this is an important distinction. And then we're also going to talk

about how nutrition can contribute or reduce inflammatory responses. So how nutrition can

drive inflammatory responses or contribute to excessive or increased

inflammation. And also on the other side of things, how can we use nutrition to reduce our

inflammatory responses in our body or reduce the levels of inflammation that are occurring

within our body? The reason that I want to talk about this topic is because this term inflammation has become

very popular.

It's often used on social media to scare people away from certain foods or ingredients.

You'll hear people say, this is inflammatory.

And I want you to better understand this topic and this term and what it actually means

so that you can

better distinguish when people are using this terminology just to scare you because often this

term inflammatory is used completely incorrectly and it's used just as scary because this term

sounds scary inflammation that sounds like not a good thing and it really isn't a goodation, that sounds like not a good thing.

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