Anti-inflammatory diet or anti-inflammatory lifestyle?

Abstract

Chronic low-grade inflammation is increasingly proving to be one of the main culprits for the onset of numerous pathologies. Until recently, to try to combat this insidious enemy, we mainly resorted to anti-inflammatory diets, but current scientific evidence seems to support the hypothesis that the maximum impact on health could be obtained above all by following an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. Nutrition alone, however important, has proven to be insufficient to guarantee physiological homeostasis, the result of an evolution that lasted hundreds of thousands of years and occurred in symbiosis with ecosystems. Our physiological conditions, and psychosocial relationships with the emotions connected to them, together with the environment, are all elements capable of interacting with each other, decisively influencing the low-grade inflammatory process. The Healthy Habits approach interprets and makes this thought concrete, and, with an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, traces a viable route.

Keywords

• Anti-inflammatory lifestyle
• Exposome
• Four pillar theory
• Health and longevity
• Healthy habits approach
• Lifestyle medicine