{"id":1753,"date":"2023-09-19T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balanceatx.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T20:34:07","slug":"why-inflammation-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balanceatx.com\/why-inflammation-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Inflammation Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1753\" class=\"elementor elementor-1753\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-524f324 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"524f324\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a09ba72\" data-id=\"a09ba72\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d203c2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d203c2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<div data-paragraph=\"true\">It would be easy to get the false impression that all inflammation is evil and should be avoided at all costs. But, like most things in life, there is more nuance than that\u2026<\/div><div data-paragraph=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div><div data-paragraph=\"true\"><strong>Inflammation is not always the enemy.<\/strong><\/div><div data-paragraph=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div><div data-paragraph=\"true\">On one hand,\u00a0<strong>short-term inflammation is a very good thing<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/balanceatx.com\/sports-medicine\/\">When you injure yourself<\/a>, the body responds with increased heat, swelling and pain fiber activation in the local area (i.e. inflammation).<br \/><br \/>These reactions are normal and beneficial &#8211; the steps everyone must go through to bring the appropriate resources to the injury site and heal.<br \/><br \/>However, even <strong>low levels of long term or chronic inflammation are where you run into issues.<\/strong> Chronic inflammation is at least a piece of the puzzle in people dealing with <a href=\"https:\/\/balanceatx.com\/austin-pain-relief\/\">pain anywhere in the body<\/a>, migraines, GI issues, depression\/anxiety, <a href=\"https:\/\/balanceatx.com\/sleep-support-2\/\">sleep issues<\/a>, thyroid issues, fatigue and more. In a chronically inflamed state, the body is diverting resources that it should be using to maintain homeostasis in order to deal with the inflammation, and your health eventually suffers.<br \/><br \/>It would be like if there was a small fire in your kitchen every day &#8211; you would be spending a good amount of your energy and resources trying to put out that fire, while the rest of the house would slowly but surely fall into disrepair.<br \/><br \/>To continue with the analogy, anti-inflammatories would be like a cup of water to throw on the fire &#8211; great idea in theory and can be partially effective in the short-term, but if you are not dealing with what caused that fire to start and what continues to give it fuel, it will continue to burn.<br \/><br \/><strong>The answer to dealing with a fire and chronic inflammation are the same: remove the fuel and use appropriate resources to put out the fire.<\/strong><br \/><br \/>The \u201cfuel\u201d can be coming from a number of sources, but most commonly I see it coming from over-exertion (over-work and\/or over-working out) with not enough sleep, poorly managed stress, and a poor diet.<\/div><div data-paragraph=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div><div data-paragraph=\"true\">In Chinese Medicine, we identify the resources you need by first evaluating your symptoms to determine how your body is trying to cope with the chronic inflammation. That evaluation leads us to a diagnosis that we can then use to prescribe acupuncture, herbal therapy, dietary therapy and lifestyle changes to help give your body the resources it needs to get the inflammation under control.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short term inflammation is how your body recovers from an injury and is essential to your health. Long-term inflammation must be addressed by identifying what is continuing to create it and giving the body the resources it needs to address it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,65,60,63,9,64,10,62],"tags":[35,25,37,17,32,177,103,119],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Inflammation Matters - Balance Wellness Acupuncture + Herbal Medicine - Austin, TX<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/balanceatx.com\/why-inflammation-matters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Inflammation Matters - Balance Wellness Acupuncture + Herbal Medicine - Austin, TX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Short term inflammation is how your body recovers from an injury and is essential to your health. 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