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I will show you what it is and what its effects on health are. In this reading you will discover that many of the autoimmune diseases that plague humanity (like migraine, which is an inflammation of the brain) come in the first instance from an "inflammatory diet" with devastating effects.

The Great Problem is that humanity is inflamed, and when the inflammation is chronic, the disease is inevitable. And how you get to the disease is the disturbing: the immune system goes crazy (basically by a demented diet) and attacks the body itself, it is called "autoimmune condition." Remember your name well because it is the epidemic that will hit humanity in the coming decades. And there are more than a hundred autoimmune diseases.

Accompany me in this reading, do not separate from me, because I am going to reveal a Great Problem that may already be affecting you (whether you know it or not), or that you may do so at some point during the course of your life. At the same time, I will discover the anti-inflammatory food that will balance your immune system.

We are in a state of war. Yes, you read correctly: we are in a state of war against the disease and its number one ally is the food industry. In the United States they call Big Food and Big Farma (Food and Pharmaceutical Industries) the two lobbies that control our lives without the average citizen suspecting it. Do not despise the enemy.

I'm not kidding, humanity faces a challenge that will make it evolve as a species or involute. To understand this, it is enough to observe the health budget compared to the war budget and we will see what we are fighting against.

In the United States, for example, 18% of the country's GDP is destined for healthcare and 3% of GDP for its armies. In Spain, 6% of GDP is allocated to healthcare and 1% of GDP to defense. Is it clear where the conflict is? As you see, we are at war with the disease. Illness is the real enemy.

Analyze the news, talk to people, check statistics ... There are sick people in every house. Do you think it's normal? Does not anyone realize that we are suffering from a real epidemic of diseases? And no, it is not normal even if it is frequent, we should not accept the unacceptable. Do not believe the fallacy that: "As we live more years, there are more patients." Go nonsense.

As I am sure, you will already know that there is an elephant in the room, but nobody talks about it: autoimmunity. It is the condition by which the immune system attacks the healthy cells of the own body by confusion. And it is not that the body has forgotten how to take care of itself, or has gone mad, but because the erroneous eating habits, chemical contamination and stress (among many other causes) have led the immune system to complete chaos.

Autoimmune diseases can affect many parts of the body. Do you hear the following ones? Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, diabetes 1 and 2, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, celiac disease, Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, osteoporosis, Addison's disease, vitiligo, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia, multiple sclerosis, Guillain Barré's disease , ELA, fibromyalgia, etc.

Not to mention other global epidemics such as: obesity, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, depression, asthma, autism, allergies, etc. I found scary statistics: by the year 2050, 50% of the human population will suffer from cancer at some point in their lives, 95% will be overweight and 66% will have diabetes ... Who knows what the future will look like now, but it is clear to me that we are going worse exponentially, it is a reality, not an estimate.

Does anyone find it normal for the average adult to gain weight between 0.2 kg to 1 kg per year? By year!

If it is true that there was a time when humanity was struggling not to die of hunger, I am afraid that we are facing a new era in which the risk is to die due precisely to overfeeding.

Who knows if the generation that follows will live less time than the previous one simply because of our bad head when it comes to eating. See that what kills your hunger does not kill you.

Memorize this information: the digestive system receives 80% of the immune system. Here is the key to solving an infinity of diseases, if not all but even knowing that food does not seem to receive too much attention.

Today it is known that if the digestive system is damaged, the immune system can not do its job effectively, but can even create absolute chaos (autoimmunity). And it is easy to understand that when the immune system does not do its job, diseases conquer the body.

 Big problem: chronic inflammation.

 Suspects: grains, sugars, dairy products, legumes ... There are also many accomplices.

 Modus operandi: chronic inflammation; that is, an inflammatory diet. To which are added the toxins to which we are exposed, stress, the indiscriminate use of drugs, excesses with antibiotics ... A chemical war that creates a picture of intestinal dysfunctions that end up affecting the immune system.

 Causes: leaky gut, the digestive anomaly that allows partially digested food to pass into the bloodstream. And it is a condition to the development of an autoimmune disorder.

 Consequences: once the immune system enters pure chaos, an endless list of symptomatology and alterations in health is produced. The autoimmune epidemic is served.

When I refer to inflammation, I mean a fire. We are on fire. Our health burns.

Inflammation is a natural mechanism of the body to fight an infection or to manage substances that irritate you. An inflammation is a defense strategy: fire, burning, flames, and with it try to finish what harms the body. Healthy inflammation is like fever, it is an excess to heal the body. Until then, a necessary and normal reaction.

The bad thing is when it becomes chronic, inflammation day in and day out, permanently. That fire ends up burning everything. This is the problem that creates most diseases, from the mildest to the deadly.