How Systemic Inflammation Affects Your Mood

Let's talk about, first of all, how inflammation changes thinking. And it's not news to most people that if you have higher levels of systemic inflammation, you have a higher chance of developing dementia. So we know there's this link between inflammation in the bloodstream and cognitive problems in the long term. What researchers have found more recently is that if you induce inflammation in a person, so if you give them something that creates higher levels of inflammation, They start feeling off and they start feeling off in a specific way. That is, they develop depression. Yes. They develop all the symptoms of depression.

Wait, headline news. Depression is inflammation.

Of the brain. There you go. Yeah.

And it's really beyond that. It's total body inflammation. So, you know, when we talk about inflammation, we say, well, Alzheimer's is an inflammatory disease of the brain. We're talking about systemic inflammation. So when we have this crappy diet that is Global now. Inflammation is induced throughout the body and affects us from anus to ulna, as it were. From everything in between.