there's no doubt that inflammation is the bane of modern society the top avoidable
diseases like heart disease and cancer they all begin with inflammation the good news is
is that you can reduce inflammation immediately by making these changes
most people are highly inflamed and they don't even know it when i tell patients that they have
an inflammation problem i hear all the time no i don't my joints don't hurt but inflammation is far
more than just an inflamed joint when i talk about inflammation i'm referring to the 40 plus trillion
cells in your body becoming inflamed and unhealthy high amounts of inflammation at a cellular level
are not only correlated to chronic disease they're also linked to everyday health problems that you
would think have nothing to do with inflammation some examples of this would be problems like
leaky gut insulin resistance skin rashes or maybe even brain fog you too may have inflammation why
is this well it's because the foods that you buy every day in your grocery store that are deemed
safe by the fda in fact are not safe at all these foods that you are eating are the cause of
inflammation but it's not just you when you start thinking about foods that really bring us together
we think of hamburger and fries hot dogs and caramel corn at the ballpark we think of ice
cream on a hot summer day pizza with our friends or maybe even popcorn at a movie you get the
picture when we think of these unhealthy foods and fun times we fail to realize how connected
they are to a sad story that we know all too well and that's our loved ones who have died
from inflammatory diseases my grandfather who died from cancer my wife's grandfather who died from
heart disease and diabetes i recently just had a patient who i've taken care of since the inception
of my career who died of cancer these stories are our reality if we do not make intentional steps to
change the way that we're eating today so hit the thumbs up button if you're ready to avoid the top
five inflammatory foods number five on our list is going to be a food that almost everyone eats
even those who think that they're making better choices in their diet and this is bad fats bad
fats include vegetable oil canola oil margarine and even soybean oil now these chemically altered
fats go by many names but typically when you see them on labels they're going to be labeled as
hydrogenated oil or partially hydrogenated oils now we have to really look out for these because
if we go out to a restaurant pretty much any fried food will be using these bad fats but
also beyond that you're going to really find them in prepackaged foods in a lot of the
foods that you see at the grocery store so you have to read those labels these unhealthy oils
are loaded with omega-6s and these omega-6s well they cause an inflammatory reaction in the body
and they also cause our body to become omega-6 dominant and this is why when people consume
omega-3s what happens is you balance out those ratios omega-6 to omega-3 and you feel so much
better for it now some healthy oils that we can look to are going to be coconut oil
avocado oil we can even use olive oil and grass-fed butter now if we're going to
heat the oil we have to make sure that we're using a temperature stable oil to cook with so
a high temperature oil that we could use is going to be coconut oil or avocado oil and if we just
want to heat something at a very low temperature grass-fed butter and olive oil are great for that
the next food that you have to avoid that causes a tremendous amount of inflammation in the body
is going to be grains whenever i'm working with somebody who has a health condition that they want
to overcome i tell them you have to avoid grains many people are consuming pasta and cereal bread
and bagels and all the grains that we shouldn't be eating and i have people say to me all the time
dr zyrowski i grew up eating grains we ate them all the time and they were never a problem why is
this such an issue now well the problem is really two-fold the first big problem is that the over
consumption people are just eating a tremendous amount of grains today but honestly that's the
lesser of the two problems the bigger problem today is how processed these grains are think
of your typical bleached white flour during the growing process of these grains they're sprayed
multiple times with neurotoxins such as herbicides and pesticides and then on top of that these
crops are mostly gmo anymore and because they're genetically modified our bodies reject them now
as i mentioned earlier if you are suffering from a health condition i recommend removing grains
in its entirety from your diet however if you're happy with your health and you're not suffering
from a health condition then you can look to using sprouted ancient grains as a healthier alternative
and a good example of this would be an ezekiel bread which you can pretty much pick up in any
grocery store today number three on our list of highly inflammatory foods is going to be sugar
sugar goes by over 200 different names on labels it also is pretty much put in everything today
i mean this is why the average person is consuming over a hundred and twenty pounds of sugar per
year and the big problem is the highly highly processed sugars like high fructose corn syrup
which directly stimulates the inflammatory cascade causing a lot of health problems for you
compared to more natural sugars like honey some of the foods that we really have to watch out for
will be the sweetened beverages the candies the pre-packaged foods and also the obvious ones like
desserts but at any time if you have a sweet tooth craving one of the things you can do is just have
some fresh berries it's an excellent alternative compared to these sweetened high sugar foods
that decay our bodies you also should know that sugar is a drug to our bodies and so we crave it
tremendously whenever we try to quit it so if you have any top tips that you want to share with us
down in the comments about how you overcame your sugar addiction go ahead and put it in there and
what i'll do is i'll pin the top comment number two on our list of highly inflammatory foods
is going to be dairy milk and before i go any further i want to make it very clear that i am not
anti-dairy but we just shouldn't be gulping down gallons and gallons of milk as a society
some experts believe that upwards of 70 of people are negatively impacted from drinking dairy milk
and it's my own observation that most people despite having really negative reactions and
gastrointestinal upset they continue to drink it anyway but having an upset stomach is not
the only common sign of inflammation there are some others that you should really watch out for
they're things like stiff joints limited range of motion so you just have pain everywhere swelling
fatigue weight loss resistance so no matter what you do you just can't seem to lose weight
unhealthy skin you're getting a lot of rashes or acne and even cognitive impairment and though
these symptoms seem small right now over time they will dramatically decrease your quality of life so
that's why you're here watching this video and i'm helping you identify the top inflammatory
foods that you have to avoid now as you look to dairy alternatives one of my favorites is going
to be almond milk that's pretty much all we use in my house and just as a quick side note if you use
almond milk over dairy milk you will dramatically decrease your calorie consumption which will in
turn help you lose a lot more weight now the next top foods that we must avoid are going to be the
grain-fed meats and the processed meats when we look to grain-fed meats the reason that they're
a big problem is because they have a high omega-6 content in them and as we learned about the bad
cooking oils and the bad fats is that that high omega-6 content is going to throw off our body's
natural fatty acid ratios and as a result it will spike inflammation now as we look to the processed
meats we're looking at poor quality meats like ham bacon sausage smoked meats and even jerky
and these meats have something known as advanced glycation end products which have been shown in
the research to actually drive inflammation in the body now this is where things get tricky we talked
about the top inflammatory foods but there's something known as toxic food syndrome toxic food
syndrome is where any food that your immune system deems to be dangerous activates the inflammatory
cascade causing harm to your body this could be food like spinach and blueberry something that is
otherwise and normally very healthy to identify these foods that may be toxic to you these healthy
foods that could be toxic to you you can keep a food journal and write them down and as you
identify that you have low energy or maybe you had a lot of bloating or poor reaction what you can do
is you can take those foods out of your diet for a period of time and then reintroduce them
back in after a four week period some ways that you can reduce inflammation through daily
activities include things like regular exercise a really good quality night sleep also focusing
on reducing stress you know many people don't know this but a stressful day at the office or even a
heated argument with a significant other can spike inflammation in your body as always it's been a
pleasure educating you on how you can take control of your health naturally now i recommend that you
watch this video over here next on how you can do a simple at-home inflammation test right here