Episode 12: Well-balance life with MNI – How chronic inflammation affects you

Arthritis is, without a doubt, a leading cause of pain and disability across the world and it is surprisingly common.

Acute and chronic back, neck, and joint pain are caused by inflammation, a biological process that the body activates in order to heal injured tissues.

How Does Inflammation Aid Healing? It is interesting to note that inflammation does serve a purpose – it is the body’s natural self-protection mechanism. The Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary defines acute inflammation as the immediate defensive reaction of tissue to any injury, which may be caused by infection, chemicals, or…

On Well Balanced, we normalise talking about your health. So, if you have a health worry, make sure to tune in to Well Balanced with Thabiso Khambule, each Saturday, between 2 and 6pm, only on Jacaranda FM. Well Balanced is brought to you by MNI. The Medical Nutritional Institute specialises…

Research has proven that raised triglycerides is an independent risk factor for heart disease. This means that raised triglycerides, without any other risk factors like raised total or LDL-cholesterol, can cause heart disease all on its own.