Aug 11, 2015
Controlling inflammation to reduce chronic disease risk
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: biotech/medical
Two-hit model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (credit: ILSI Europe)
In an open-access paper in the British Journal of Nutrition, a coalition of 17 experts explain how elevated unresolved chronic inflammation is involved a range of chronic diseases, and how nutrition influences inflammatory processes and helps reduce chronic risk of diseases.
According to the authors, “the nutrition status of the individual with for example a deficiency or excess of certain micronutrients (e.g. folate, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, vitamin 1, vitamin E, zinc) may lead to an ineffective or excessive inflammatory response.
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