Inflammation:rnthe Good, The Bad And The Ugly!

摘要

Inflammation is in integral part of the body's immune response to infections and further participates in the healing of wounds. The inflammatory processes may, however, be turned against us when mechanisms responsible for initiating an inflammation are over-sensitive or faulty altogether. The latter is the case for example in allergies.rnDuring the past years it goes increasingly clear that chronic inflammatory conditions play a decisive role in numerous degenerative and also metabolic disorders. It turns out that osteoarthritis, atherosclerosis, menstrual pain, asthma, Alzheimer's disease and even diabetes, to name just a few, involve persisting, low-level inflammatory processes.