Most in the conventional and alternative health communities accept that chronic, underlying inflammation is a root cause of degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s/dementia, various forms of arthritis and even heart disease and cancer.
Results of medical research have been widely published. If you’re even mildly concerned about your health, then preventing chronic inflammation should be a priority in your life.
What causes inflammation? Most experts agree that lack of exercise and a toxic diet contribute to chronic inflammation, but there is another well-substantiated yet overlooked cause. I call it psychological inflammation.
Psychological inflammation is this same physical inflammation, but it is caused by psychological stress, which has been scientifically linked to physical inflammation.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that psychological stress directly interferes with your body’s ability to regulate inflammation, which leads to the progression of disease.
“Inflammation is partly regulated by the hormone cortisol and when cortisol is not allowed to serve this function, inflammation can get out of control,” said Sheldon Cohen, a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, which sponsored the research.
Cohen states that psychological stress causes immune cells become insensitive to cortisol’s regulatory effect. In turn, runaway inflammation promotes the development and progression of many diseases.
In other words, if your life causes you emotional stress that weighs on you daily, then you are on the path toward chronic inflammation and physical disease.
Four Sources of Disease-Causing Psychological Inflammation
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