Health Matters 2024: Food’s Protective Power Against Disease

Inflammation can be a good thing, signaling your body’s attempt to fight off infection or heal an injury. But when inflammatory cells soldier forth when you’re not sick or injured, chronic inflammation can ensue, contributing to obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and even autoimmune disease and cancer. The good-no, great-news is that the foods you eat can have a dramatic effect on inflammation in your body, helping not only to prevent it, but to fight it if it’s already started. Join Dr. Katsumoto as she discusses how foods can be anti-inflammatory-and how the ones you choose can also help the planet.
Tamiko Katsumoto, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine-Immunology and Rheumatology
Part of Health Matters, Stanford Medicine's free annual community event. To learn more, please visit healthmatters.stanford.edu.

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Tamiko nailed it. Her presentation has stayed with me. She is onto something!!!! A true visionary!

[@lisaskye296]

Thank you for sharing

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Eat all organic as much as possible. The lack of pesticides allow “bugs” to nibble on the leaves and stems which dramatically increases beneficial compounds that we benefit from when eaten.

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Good Food is medicine. Bad Food requires medicine.

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While I watched this, I put a pot of lentils to cook!

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Not all of us must go full vegan. If all of us can reduce meat consumption by 50%. We learned to stir-fry veg with a few thin slices of meat for flavor. Protein deficiency is what the meat industry try to hoodwink us. Few of us are bodybuilders, plant protein is fine. Even supermarket corn is contaminated with glysophate (Round up).