Common food additives like polysorbate 80 can damage your gut lining, allowing toxins to leak into your bloodstream and trigger an inflammatory reaction.

Bad gut bacteria can produce toxins that cause 'metabolic endotoxemia,' leading to insulin resistance and pre-diabetes even without a change in diet.

The 'tack rule' of functional medicine states that if you are standing on a tack, the solution is to remove the tack, not take aspirin for the pain.

A new test from Stanford called iAge (immune age) analyzes 50 different cytokines to measure your immune system's health and predict disease risk.

Belly fat is not just passive storage but an active immune organ that constantly spews out inflammatory signals into your body.

Future inflammation testing may involve challenging the immune system with a substance like lipopolysaccharide to measure its response, rather than just taking a baseline snapshot.

The 'exposome,' which is the sum of all your environmental and social exposures, is responsible for 95% of chronic disease, not your genome.

A new 'inflammatory age' metric can predict with high accuracy who will become frail seven years before it actually happens.