inflammation

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

  Increased inflammation in the body worsens symptoms of clinical depression, says a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry on November 18, 2015.   Higher levels of blood markers of inflammation were found to be directly correlated with a variety of depressive symptoms, including sleep difficulty, decreased energy levels, decreased motivation and increased or decreased appetite.   The details: Researchers looked at data on C-reactive protein levels (a blood marker of whole body inflammation) in over 15,000 patients. Higher levels of inflammation were directly correlated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, and the correlation was dose dependent… meaning the higher […]

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Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

This week, many of us are heading into the holidays.   And as you head into a week of parties and connection and warmth and pot lucks and FOOD… I can think of no better holiday gift than this:   To share with you, directly from the medical literature, the truth that saturated fat does NOT increase mortality.     It’s not about the fat… saturated fat intake does not increase rate of death. It’s about the inflammation and the long term damage that inflammation does to your blood vasculature (and your entire body, from your gut lining to your

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Vit D To Boost Your Weight Loss Benefits

Vitamin D boosts the health benefits of weight loss!   By simply adding Vitamin D supplementation to your weight loss plan, you reduce your whole-body inflammation, a new study suggests (published April 23, 2015 in Cancer Prevention Research.)   High levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine Interleukin (IL)-6 have been linked to increased risk of developing devastating illness including cancer… as chronic inflammation is thought to be a pro-tumor state for the body.   By reducing systemic inflammation, you reduce your chances of cancer and other chronic diseases.   This is one of the reasons I find grounding the body (touching

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Dr. Sinatra Shatters Everything You Thought You Knew To Stay Heart Healthy

The month of love, February, is Heart Month on my website!   All this month I’ll be releasing information to keep your heart healthy. Today I have some extremely important information that you MUST KNOW to protect the longevity of your heart. Have you been told your high cholesterol level is bad for your heart? Are you on medication to treat high cholesterol?   You may want to reconsider your medication and that outdated advice. Our cholesterol information is based on studies that are over 40 years old, so most of what we were taught about cholesterol is in medical

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Dr. Steve Sinatra in Dr. Laura Koniver's hometown

Avoiding Tylenol…

Hi peeps! A new study published online November 22 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology shed some new light on the use of Tylenol. It doesn’t look pretty in this new light. I know it would be easier to turn the light off, but instead, let’s shine a spotlight on Tylenol so that we can help spread awareness, and then lets talk about all the positive wonderful alternatives there are out there. Okay, here is the low down. Taking just a tiny amount more Tylenol then recommended, on a chronic basis, may lead to death. And if not death,

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