Dr. Jeff Bland
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Call it fire in the belly. It's like the fire in your fat cells in your belly that send a spreading fire across your body.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
So are you saying that the reason for the systemic inflammation throughout our body, the silent killer, this quiet inflammation that is not like the inflammation we learned about in medical school where there's redness and swelling and pain, that it's kind of quiet and you don't notice it, but it's creating this sort of smoldering fire.
So are you saying that the reason for the systemic inflammation throughout our body, the silent killer, this quiet inflammation that is not like the inflammation we learned about in medical school where there's redness and swelling and pain, that it's kind of quiet and you don't notice it, but it's creating this sort of smoldering fire.
So are you saying that the reason for the systemic inflammation throughout our body, the silent killer, this quiet inflammation that is not like the inflammation we learned about in medical school where there's redness and swelling and pain, that it's kind of quiet and you don't notice it, but it's creating this sort of smoldering fire.
And are you saying that most of this is coming from problems with our gut microbiome?
And are you saying that most of this is coming from problems with our gut microbiome?
And are you saying that most of this is coming from problems with our gut microbiome?
Environmental toxins.
Environmental toxins.
Environmental toxins.
So it's a total load effect that we've been talking about in our field for... So low-grade infections, like viruses, ticks, who knows what. It could be mold in the environment. Precisely. It could be our diet that's changing our microbiome and creating inflammation, sugar...
So it's a total load effect that we've been talking about in our field for... So low-grade infections, like viruses, ticks, who knows what. It could be mold in the environment. Precisely. It could be our diet that's changing our microbiome and creating inflammation, sugar...
So it's a total load effect that we've been talking about in our field for... So low-grade infections, like viruses, ticks, who knows what. It could be mold in the environment. Precisely. It could be our diet that's changing our microbiome and creating inflammation, sugar...
And so the question is... It's dealing with a bad set of circumstances.
And so the question is... It's dealing with a bad set of circumstances.
And so the question is... It's dealing with a bad set of circumstances.
I think that's what I've always said for years is that disease is just the body's best ability to deal with a bad set of circumstances. Change the circumstances and the disease goes away. That's right.