My CRP Was Very High. What Do You Recommend to Lower Inflammation?

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My CRP was very high. What do you recommend to lower inflammation? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert and fitness hall of famer. Been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Vivian Sid from Facebook asks, my CRP was very high. What do you recommend to lower inflammation? I am so excited that you asked this question. I'm live right now on Facebook. Vivian popped that up. So I'm going to answer that. I'll be right back.

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All right, CRP C reactive protein is a measure of overall inflammation in the body. What the heck can we do to change that? Well, there are three key things that I think about in changing crp. Number one, actually now that I think about it, off the cuff, I'm going to give you a couple more. But the number one thing is remember that CRP quite often is going to. Not always, but usually it's also correlated with body fat because body fat is a storage from more pro inflammatory fat, especially around the waistline. So there's that. And also what we know is that inflammation drives obesity and obesity drives inflammation. So they correlate pretty closely. So of course one of the things I'm going to say is lose body fat. Super key and critical because that will also drive down inflammation. But you want to make sure you're doing that correctly. And again, the way I like to look at this is the first thing that you want to do is make sure that as you're losing body fat, you're able to detoxify. Because toxins store in your fat, you've got to be able to detoxify. So I love a detox that moves into the virgin diet to figure out which foods work for you and which foods don't. Because when you're eating foods that don't work well for you, they drive inflammation. Once you've done that and figured out which foods you should be eating, then you move into the sugar impact diet where you lower your sugar impact because sugar drives inflammation. So those are three things that will, that will lower inflammation but also help you burn off the body fat. Because in the sugar impact diet, I teach you how to move from being a sugar burner to a fat burner. And when you're a fat burner now you're going to get rid of that fat that holds onto the inflammation. Okay, so those are, that's the process and that's going to take time. Here's two things that can help you put out the fat fire while you're doing that. The first one is to make an oil change. So we want to really focus on eating more of the anti inflammatory oils and fats we tend to eat. The standard American diet is a very pro inflammatory diet. We eat a lot of fats that are higher in inflammation. They're called omega 6, especially arachidonic acid fats. So what you want to focus on is, is pushing more into monounsaturated and especially omega 3 fats. Fats from cold water, wild fish, freshly ground flaxseed meal, hemp oil, walnuts, so chia seeds. So working eating more omega 3s that are anti inflammatory, that's step one. Step two are antioxidants. Now this was super cool when I first started learning about highly sensitive C reactive protein. One of the things that we started doing therapeutically from the start was giving people antioxidants to lower their hscrp. Now again, remember, I want you to lose body fat. And in the process, while you're losing body fat making that oil change, adding more Omega 3s and increasing your antioxidant intake can help bring it down quickly. So antioxidants, of course we want to get as much as we can from food that's eating from the rainbow of plants and vegetables. The colors are the phytonutrients or the antioxidants but you're not going to get all of it from your food. So couple highlight antioxidants that I truly love that can be super helpful here. Annattotokotrienols. This is a special form of omega of vitamin E. Atokotrienol. This is incredible. You can get this one from designed for health. Annatto tocotrienol. Next one would be curcumin. Now in my Reignite wellness store I have curcumin chews. They are like seriously, you can stain your nails if you're not careful with them. They're bright orange because of the curcumin. Those are the curcuminoids that come out of turmeric and turmeric is great spice to use but you're not going to get a whole lot of curcumin out of it. That's why you want to take it in a form that is more bioavailable. I will be talking on another episode why you don't ever want to take bioperine with curcumin because it trashes your gut. But curcumin is another one. Grapeseed resveratrol, that's another great one. Green tea extract egcg, that's another great one. So those tend to be my favorites. I love resveratrol, grape seed extract and skin. I love curcumin. I love green tea. But there's a whole and I love of course tocotrienols. But there's a whole host of them. And ideally start with your diet. But then you're going to definitely want to supplement your multivitamin mineral antioxidant formula. That's kind of your starting point with that and then you can add in from that. So again, longer term virgin diet sugar impact diet shift Drop the body fat, you'll drop the inflammation. In the interim, make an oil change, more omega 3s, add antioxidants into your diet that will get that HSCRP down faster. There you go. This is JJ with Ask the Health Expert. I do this five times a week, so make sure you never miss a show by going to subscribetojay.com.

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