CHRONIC INFLAMMATION
The 21st Century epidemic
In Germany alone millions of people suffer from persistent inflammation: asthma in the lungs, psoriasis on the skin, Crohn's disease in the intestine or periodontitis of the gums. These involve a mistaken attack on almost all the organs - the body's boundary surfaces - by inflammatory chemical messengers and defense cells after both of these had previously successfully and properly eliminated unwelcome intruders such as viruses or bacteria.
The blood circulation speeds up automatically wherever microbes are detected in the body. The spaces between the cells in the blood vessel walls widen as the respective region of the body becomes warmer. This allows defense substances that were brought into position to pass through into the tissues easily - and destroy viruses, fungi or bacteria.
This mechanism, however, which was always reliable during thousands of years of human evolution, has increasingly lost its rhythm in the social environment of modern civilization - not only do the aggressive chemical messengers just eliminate the intruders, they also damage the healthy organs as well.
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The aim: don't just sooth - cure!
Even for western civilization's main cause of death, heart attack, there is growing evidence that inflammatory processes are the cause. The bacteria and fungi that trigger inflammation are often found in the pumping organ of coronary infarct patients. However, the organs of the human body become inflamed not only after a successful fight against bacteria, but even without being influenced by external intruders. For example inflammatory processes also play a part in the hermetically shielded brain - in illnesses such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease.
Today, novel active ingredients which specifically block the inflammation-triggering agents that are out of control often bring to a halt the destructive processes in the body. However they cannot cure patients, only alleviate their suffering temporarily.