Inflammation is your body’s way of responding to any unidentified material such as a virus, bacteria, fungi, allergen, or any injury in the body, which your body tries to get rid of by surrounding and attacking the intruder, leading to swelling, redness, diarrhea, bloating, etc. Inflammation is the body’s immune system mechanism to protect against harmful organisms and injuries. Typically, a healthy immune system calms the inflammation within a few hours or sometimes after a few days after clearing away the intruder. However, chronic inflammation develops when your body cannot effectively eliminate the intruder that’s causing the inflammation.
Now, almost 80% of the immune system lives in the gut microbiome. The main function of the immune system is to protect the body from intruders, by filtering the cells of your body from other cells that don’t belong to the human body. This immune response happens too often in reaction to foods that are eaten as well as environmental and lifestyle habits. This ongoing overreaction causes an imbalance of the good versus bad bacteria in the gut microbiome, thereby undesirable bacterial products eventually leak through the gut lining and into the bloodstream. The immune system identifies these substances as foreign and mounts an attack, causing chronic inflammation.
