At My Life Tonic, we like to share interesting articles that can help make either our physical or mental health better by making small changes, where we can.
The article, from the Guardian on 27th June, explains that inflammation is a vital part of the body’s immune response and not something to try to eliminate. It is a complex biological process that occurs when the body detects harmful stimuli and its purpose is to protect you and kickstart healing.
The article also explains that inflammation can be caused by various factors such as stress, pollution, poor diet, lack of sleep, and more. It also provides some tips on how to reduce inflammation such as eating anti-inflammatory foods like fruits and vegetables, getting enough sleep, reducing stress levels, and more12.
Chronic inflammation occurs when the body sends white blood cells when there is no actual threat to the body's health. This has the affect of disrupting the normal function of the body and can result in healthy organs and tissues being attacked. Chronic inflammation has now been associated with many diseases, where it was not previously thought to be linked.
For those of you familiar with My Life Tonic, you'll be aware that our aim is to support people find what works them that can help make them feel better - both physically and mentally. It's interesting that inflammation can be caused by stress, poor diet and lack of sleep to name a few; all of which we provide insights into how to make small changes to improve them,
We've written a few blogs that can help people make changes to their diet with the aim of helping people move away from Ultra-Processed Foods.
We do it everyday....but are we getting enough. Our blog below outlines why sleep is so important for both our mental health and physical wellbeing.
Everyone is different, so we've provided several ways that can help maintain a positive mental health in our recent blogs
At My Life Tonic, we offer a wide range of on-demand classes for people to follow in their own time that can help with both physical wellbeing as well as mental health. Individual subscriptions and wellbeing packages are available for businesses and organisations to support their staff.
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