Poor health and chronic inflammation.
The root cause of western-style diseases that will affect over 50 per cent of us, limiting our lifetime wellness and increase our timeline of disease, is chronic inflammation.
In survival terms, inflammation is the beneficial response that allows our bodies to heal after trauma and to fight infection.
Our individual genetic response is key to who develops disease in our ever increasingly toxic world.
Our immune systems are exposed to many environmental signals. In our current world environment, there are many sources of these signals or triggers. The rapid expansion of western culture and the development of human-made materials and food distortion can trick the immune system into an inappropriate response, causing ill health.
The toxic mix of sugar, salt and fat combined with environmental toxins is very challenging to our finely developed immune systems.
It is from these sources that our western lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, cancers, fatigue and many others are generated.
This is not to say that some of these diseases were not around in very early civilisations; this just validates the fact that we are vulnerable to these disorders.
Around the age of 30, the foundations for inflammation’s destruction of our well-being is becoming established. It is at this point, well past the time where we can pass on our DNA, that action must be taken to reduce the timeline of disease.
Early identification using biomarkers (measures of our bodily response) is valuable. One such non-invasive biomarker is the analysis of brachial blood pressure. This testing is known as pulse wave analysis or PWA.
Intelligent interpretation of the result of this technology is no longer just the domain of medical practitioners. The democratisation of this information will help allow individuals to take control of their health timelines.
There are several recognised scientifically validated interventions which can make a difference to the inflammatory response, and this alters the outcome for the individual.
Access to this technology currently is in the hands of medical professionals. However, they have not, in general, adopted this technology because their understanding of diseases is still an organ-based methodology.
A systems biology (biochemical) methodology approach to ill health is foreign to the medical fraternity and continues to limit their, and our, understanding and management strategies at an early stage.
Democratisation through the use of intelligent bio-based machinery will in the medium and long-term reduce the costs of health care and disease management.