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Going Plant-Based to Protect Your Brain

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Going Plant-Based to Protect Your Brain

Of all the health issues we’d like to prevent, losing our mental abilities tops the list. Losing memory and brainpower means stripping away our most critical capabilities. If the process drags on over years, as it often does, it can weigh on our families and exhaust them physically, emotionally, and financially.

But losing memory, alertness, and concentration is not automatic. Your calendar doesn’t come equipped with an eraser.

From evidence-based research, we know that a plant-based diet promotes physical health. But it has powerful protective effect on brain health as well. Read more

Going Plant-Based to Reduce Inflammation

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Going Plant-Based to Reduce Inflammation

What is inflammation? There’s a defensive war going on in your body, conducted by intelligence officers (ordinary cells), signalers (interferons and cytokines), generals (endothelial cells), armed soldiers (white blood cells). Their mission: to detect, envelop, destroy, and purge your body of bad germs, viruses, parasites, oxidizing molecules, and cancerous cells. That war, necessary for existence, leaves behind redness, swelling, heat, pain, loss of function. Inflammation.

Inflammation can be acute and short-term, depending on the insult to the body: a sprain, poison ivy, acne, pneumonia, burns. Short-term, the army is deployed, does its job, and the body is healed.

But chronic long-term inflammation has a dark side, playing a role in health concerns like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, psoriasis, asthma, skin aging, inflammatory arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Read more