Dr. Ashley LucasPhD Nutritionist & Dietitian | Owner & Founder PHD Weight Loss & Dr. Ashley Wellness

Inflammation is making you sick. You CAN fix it.

7 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Speaker (Dr. Ashley Lucas) opens by asserting that inflammation underlies most chronic progressive diseases (heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis) and frames successful weight loss not as merely losing fat but as reducing inflammation and increasing energy. She ties those outcomes to how and when people eat, how they move, and—importantly—habits, behaviors, and emotional/mental factors; when inflammation and energy are addressed, weight loss becomes a byproduct.

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Inflammation is the root of all disease. It is linked to heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, any kind of chronic progressive disease. Inflammation is at the base of it. Most people think that weight loss is all about just dropping this excess fat weight, when in reality weight loss is about reducing inflammation and increasing energy. When we can do those two things by how we eat, when we eat, how we move our body, most importantly habits, behaviors, the emotional and mental components associated with successfully dropping excess fat weight, then weight loss is just this really super fun and exciting byproduct.