Category Archives: Inflammation

Got Psoriasis: Try Weight Loss?

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Robert Barrington

Psoriasis is a disease of chronic inflammation that affects the skin. Around 2 % of the population living in Western nations are known to suffer from psoriasis, making it quantitatively an important disease. Psoriasis possesses an immune component whereby T … Continue reading →

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Alpha Linolenic Acid: Cardiovascular Risk

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Robert Barrington

Alpha linolenic acid (ALA, C18:3 (n-3)) is an essential fatty acid that has vitamin like effects in humans. Intakes of ALA must be balanced with intake of the other essential fatty acid linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)), and the dietary … Continue reading →

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Three Useful Anti-Inflammatory Nutrients

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Robert Barrington

Inflammation can be a major cause of disease. The inflammatory process is complex and it is highly important in the defence systems of the animals. The normal acute inflammatory response is there to provide a rapid response to infection or … Continue reading →

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Vitamin D: Immunity and Inflammation Regulator

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Robert Barrington

Vitamin D is not a vitamin, but actually a steroid hormone that regulates gene expression in cells. Vitamin D is associated with protection from a number of diseases including cancer. The ability of vitamin D to confer protection from cancer … Continue reading →

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More Benefits for Anti-Inflammatory Diets

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Inflammation is associated with the development and progression of a number of diseases. In particular, inflammation is associated with Western lifestyle diseases including obesity, metabolic syndrome, arthritis, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Mechanistically inflammation can contribute to disease … Continue reading →

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Echinacea purpurea and Echinacea angustifolia

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Phytochemistry: echinacea purpurea and Echinacea angustifolia contain a large number of phytochemicals. Some of the most interesting are a group of polysaccharides than may have immune enhancing effects. The polysaccharides with immune stimulating effects include fructogalactoxyloglucans and one acidic arabinogalactan. … Continue reading →

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Evidence That Antioxidant Supplements Improve Health Outcomes

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Robert Barrington

The Western diet is considered a pro-inflammatory diet, because consumption of the diet significantly upregulates the inflammatory pathways in the tissues. This inflammation in turn increases the oxidative stress experienced. Oxidative stress is a condition whereby the generation and propagation … Continue reading →

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Fibre: Variety is Important

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Literature continues to accumulate as to the health benefits of dietary fibre. This research is often complex and difficult to interpret, and part of this is due to the large amount of different compounds that are defined as dietary fibre. … Continue reading →

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Antioxidant Supplements

Posted on October 14, 2017 by Robert Barrington
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Treating Inflammation with Nutrition

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Inflammation is a necessary physiological reaction by the tissues of animals to damage, infection and invasion by pathogens. This process is highly complex, but is designed to provide defence to tissues by supplying immunological components and physical barriers to possible … Continue reading →

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