14 Warning Signs That There’s Hidden Inflammation in Your Body (and How to Get Rid of It)

Health

Diabetes

With diabetes, inflammation is internal.

Recent research suggests that the inflammation inside your body can play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes. Individuals with type 2 diabetes don’t produce enough insulin, or their bodies can’t use the insulin adequately. Insulin can have a negative effect on the tissue in the body, one of which includes obesity and having an extra accumulation of fat around the belly and other major organs.

Researchers have discovered that people with type 2 diabetes have a higher level of cytokine, which is an inflammation-boosting protein that is released by cell that have a specific effect on the interaction between cells; basically, the communication between one cell and another.

Fat cells act like a factory for cytokine. The more fat cells, the more cytokine.

Cytokine triggers cells response to inflammation and response to infections. When a person’s cytokine level is elevated, this causes chronic internal inflammation. When a person starts to develop type 2 diabetes, their body becomes less sensitive to insulin and results in insulin resistance, which causes inflammation. This is a vicious cycle that continues. More inflammation causes more insulin resistance.

Cancer

As we already know, chronic inflammation can wreak havoc on your body. It can create the best environment for rogue cells. If a rogue cell travels through the body, it can eventually damage a healthy strand of DNA causing it to mutate. As the small mutation starts growing inside your body, it tries to get enough oxygen and nutrients that it can from its surroundings. As the cells mutate, it becomes a cancerous tumor.

Cancers, such as colon cancer and breast cancer, are some that can be caused by chronic inflammation. Colon cancer can occur in individuals who have inflammatory bowel disease, which is the inflammation of all or part of the digestive tract.

A type of breast cancer called, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), may also be caused from chronic inflammation. This cancer is caused when cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the

skin. Lymph vessels are thin, valved structures that carry lymph, a fluid that contains white blood cells and drains through the lymphatic system. If these lymph vessels become blocked, the cancer has nowhere to go and can continue to grow.

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