Your Healthy Heart: Guarding Against Inflammation
|  |  | It seems unthinkable that one of your body’s lifesaving mechanisms could turn against you and increase your risk of disease. But that’s just what scientists have been finding when it comes to inflammation, an essential part of the body’s response to infection or injury.
Triggered by the immune system, inflammation helps the body attack disease-causing germs, repair injured tissue and promote healing. When the fight is over, the immune system’s troops are supposed to cease fire and retreat. But sometimes they don’t, and that’s when problems can arise. Read More
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