Is Inflammation Behind Your Chronic Conditions?

Medical research implicates this misdirected immune response in a growing list of diseases and chronic conditions

Chronic inflammation is common in many diseases and unhealthy food may be the culprit. Shutterstock

Long before COVID-19 put intense focus on the immune system, research into the wide effects of inflammation on human health was growing.

More than 10 years ago, research in the journal EMBO Reports found that while inflammation “[had] long been a well-known symptom of many infectious diseases,” research increasingly suggested that it was “also intimately linked with a broad range of non-infectious diseases, perhaps even all of them.”