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

Your diet is turning your immune system against you

16 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Dr. Ashley Lucas arguing that everyday diet strongly influences the immune system: certain foods can convert an acute inflammatory response into chronic inflammation, which in turn drives chronic progressive diseases (type 2 diabetes, cancer, weight gain, heart disease). The video frames diet as either fueling chronic disease/inflammation or helping healing.

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All of these diseases that are popping up, where you think, where the heck did that come from? When our inflammatory system and our immune response gets out of whack, it starts to go haywire, and this acute inflammation becomes chronic. And that's what causes type 2 diabetes and cancer and weight gain and heart disease. The foods that you eat every day either fuel chronic disease and inflammation or help you heal. It was from this acute inflammatory response that became chronic and led to these kind of, quote, chronic progressive diseases.