Although you will want to figure out the cause of inflammation in your life, the next step is to keep living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. But how do you do that?
Here's what I recommend:
Eat a whole foods, high-fiber, plant-based diet, which is inherently anti-inflammatory. That means choosing unprocessed, unrefined, whole, fresh, real foods, not those full of sugar and trans fats and low in powerful anti-inflammatory plant chemicals called phytonutrients.
Give yourself an oil change by eating healthy monounsaturated fats in olive oil, nuts and avocadoes, and getting more omega-3 fats from small fish like sardines, herring, sable, and wild salmon.
Mounting evidence tells us that regular exercise reduces inflammation. It also improves immune function, strengthens your cardiovascular systems, corrects and prevents insulin resistance, and is key for improving your mood and erasing the effects of stress. In fact, regular exercise is one among a small handful of lifestyle changes that correlates with improved health in virtually ALL of the scientific literature. So get moving already!
Learn how to engage your vagus nerve by actively relaxing. This powerful nerve relaxes your whole body and lowers inflammation when you practice yoga or meditation, breathe deeply, or even take a hot bath.
If you have food allergies, find out what you’re allergic to and get stop eating those foods—gluten and dairy are two common culprits.
Take probiotics to help your digestion and improve the balance of healthy bacteria in your gut, which reduces inflammation.
Take a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral supplement, fish oil, and vitamin D, all of which help reduce inflammation.