Keeping the inflammation is keeping you sick

Inflammation is not the enemy.
It’s a defense mechanism.

When the body detects a threat—injury, infection, stress, or irritating foods—it activates the immune system and releases messengers called cytokines. In the short term, acute inflammation is protective. It repairs tissues, fights infections, and supports healing. It is intelligent. It is necessary.

The problem begins when inflammation doesn’t turn off.

When the body stays in a constant state of alert, inflammation becomes chronic. Silent. Low-grade. Exhausting. Over time, it stops repairing and starts damaging—contributing to fatigue, pain, hormonal imbalance, autoimmune patterns, and metabolic dysfunction.

Very often, chronic inflammation is not just physical.
It’s also a nervous system story.

If the body doesn’t feel safe, it stays in defense.

Healing is not about forcing inflammation down.
It’s about removing the threats, restoring balance, and helping the body feel safe enough to shift out of survival.

Because when protection never ends, illness becomes a state.

And your body deserves to come back to repair.

With love,
Marine Sélénée