Fighting Inflammation
New Online Course now available from Harvard Health Publishing
Fighting Inflammation
Protect yourself from harmful inflammation
When you have chronic low-grade inflammation, your body is in a constant state of high alert, affecting many areas of your body. Left unchecked, it can silently promote multiple diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and arthritis.
What can you do to help thwart this silent stalker?
Find out in Harvard’s Fighting Inflammation Online Course. It’s the authoritative, go-to source to help you understand the dangers of chronic inflammation and discover the practical advice to help you proactively protect your health.
This comprehensive course is so easy to use!
It’s overflowing with lively photo features, interactive pages, videos, charts, quizzes, and more. Together, they reveal the best practices that may help save you from health problems before they can even start! And you can use it any time on any device — your smart phone, tablet, or computer!
Inflammation and Your Immune System Explained
- Inflammation: friend or foe — or both?
- What happens when the immune system misfires and turns against the body itself
- Factors that contribute to and help prevent inflammation
- Signs and symptoms of chronic (bad) inflammation
- What happens when the immune system goes into “defense mode” when no true threat exists
When Good Inflammation Goes Bad
- Causes of low-grade chronic inflammation
- Who is at greater risk for a dangerous inflammatory reaction?
- How fat cells send the immune system into a state of alert
- Foods known to promote inflammation and which foods suppress it
- When inflammation can spiral out of control during a stress response
Inflammation and Allergic Responses
- The dangerous connection between allergies and inflammation.
- The surprising causes of eczema and why it may increase the risk of heart disease and stroke
- Inflammation-easing medications used to treat asthma, allergies, and eczema
Inflammation and Autoimmune Responses
- How inflammation can contribute to lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other conditions
- Medications that help tame autoimmune-induced inflammation and halt the disease process
- How prebiotics and probiotics might ease symptoms of autoimmune disease
Inflammation’s Effect on the Body and Mind
- The breakthrough anti-inflammatory drug shown to help reduce risk of heart disease.
- The hybrid inflammation-fighting brain diet to help preserve cognitive function
- How constant, “metabolically triggered inflammation,” plays a role in both type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
- How inflammation increases cancer risk (as many as 20% of cancers begin as a direct result of inflammation)
Protective Lifestyle Changes
- The best anti-inflammatory diet plans
- Flavor-boosting herbs and spices that can help lower inflammation
- Anti-inflammatory eating tips to help protect your heart and keep your weight in check
- The most potent inflammation-fighting fruits and vegetables
- Practical tips for better sleep, weight loss, and reducing stress to help fight inflammation
The alarming fact is that three out of every five people around the world die from a disease that has been linked to inflammation:
- Heart and blood vessels: Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), heart disease
- Digestive system: Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
- Joints: Some forms of arthritis, including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis
- Lungs: Allergies, asthma, COPD, lung cancer
- Brain and spinal cord: Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease
- Eyes: Macular degeneration, retinal degeneration, uveitis
- Skin: Acne, eczema, psoriasis, skin cancer
- Kidneys: Chronic kidney disease, kidney failure, nephritis
- Pancreas: Type 1 diabetes
- Thyroid: Thyroiditis
- Liver: Chronic hepatitis
FIGHT BACK against chronic inflammation with Harvard’s Fighting Inflammation Online Course! ENROLL TODAY! This easy-to-follow course is overflowing with lively photo features, interactive pages, videos, charts and more. Together, these online features make it easy to better understand depression and to proactively do something about it.
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Harvard’s Fighting Inflammation Online Course is yours for just $29.95 — a savings of $10.00 off the regular price. And remember, you can watch the Course as often as you like from any device. It never expires!