Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

So, today we're going to talk about using fasting to rid chronic inflammation.

Now, inflammation has a couple of purposes. One, it's there to repair injury.

So, you spray an ankle, inflammation comes in there to help bring all sorts of immune cells to

help repair the action, and also to bring in scar tissue as a part of the healing process.

Then you have a defense mechanism against infection. So, you have certain microbes, bacteria,

yeast, candida, nanobacteria, which are very, very small microbes,

microplasma, which is kind of a microbe without a cell wall. It uses information to help

contain these microbes. Let's see, you have a sinus allergy where your immune system is generating

this mucus to help contain the pollen or dust or grass particles, which your body is considering

a threat to the survival. And then you have food allergies, right? Where people are allergic to

all these different foods. And in this video, I'm not going to get into why you created the

allergy in the first place. The fact is that if you have food allergy, every time you eat it,

you're creating inflammation over and over and over. So, all this inflammation generates scar tissue

in the lungs, in the joints, in the liver, because you can go from hepatitis, which is inflammation

the liver, to cirrhosis. And you also get scar tissue from actual placking in the arteries

from some type of inflammatory condition in your vascular system. Now, when you go from acute

inflammation to chronic inflammation, this is where it's inappropriate, okay? Chronic inflammation

does you know good. It has no long-term survival benefit. In fact, if you take autoimmune conditions,

for example, you have your own body attacking itself and you have all this collateral damage

that's going on. So, people are forced to take prednisone and steroids because cortisol suppresses

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