Robert Whitfield MD explains that chronic inflammation drives 14 of the top 15 causes of death, from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and liver failure. The inflammation behind these diseases is often invisible until serious damage occurs.
14 of the 15 top causes of death (per the speaker referencing the CDC).
There's there's one root mechanism. Now, first, let me backtrack for a moment and say that the center for Disease control tells us 14 of the 15 top causes of death are chronic inflammatory diseases. It's always inflammation, always, except for unintentional injuries. Everything else.
Let's pause for a second, say, like what, what we mean by that. So everybody's brain, you can have something like Alzheimer's, a chronic inflammatory process.
Right.
Have in your lungs pulmonary fibrosis or emphysema, an inflammatory process. When we talk about kidneys in end stage renal disease requiring dialysis. So that may be glomerular, glomerular nephritis or some other problem with that. And then obviously, hepatitis, end stage liver disease requiring not just hemodialysis, but a liver transplant.
Diabetes, cognitive decline, Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, Ms. It doesn't matter. They're all inflammatory diseases.
