Chronic inflammation is harmful but long-term overall inflammation is extremely bad for your body. It triggers many diseases, and a lot of people don’t know that an unhealthy gut is the main potential source of overall inflammation. 

Bad things that start in the gut can eventually impact nearly every organ and system in the body. However, inflammation is not always an obvious problem. Sometimes the symptoms of chronic overall inflammation can be noticeable. Chronic pain and constant fatigue can indicate that something is wrong with your body and you need to take some actions. 

While there are the most common signs of inflammation, it can linger indolently for years before symptoms start to occur. This means that when you experience the symptoms of inflammation, enough damage has been caused to you body to have noticeable problems. Let’s take a look at five signs your inflammation might be under control.

1. You often get sick.

Eating the wrong foods that feed bad gut bacteria, daily toxin exposure, and many other things can lead to dysbiosis, which in turn results in gut problems like leaky gut syndrome. This condition negatively affects your immune system.

In fact, approximately 70 percent of the immune system is located in the gut lining. Therefore gut issues can make us more prone to getting colds and other diseases more often. Eating foods you might be sensitive to can also wreak havoc on your microbiome and enhance overall inflammation. 

You may not know you have any food sensitivity since it does not manifest itself in the same way as allergies. However, sensitivities can lead to gut-unrelated symptoms like allergies, hives,  headaches, chronic sinus inflammation, brain fog, memory issues, and frequent migraines. 

When your immune system is destroyed by your poor gut health, it can’t react to other respiratory viruses and bacteria effectively. In order to improve your immune system and fight inflammation, you need to heal your gut by finding the root cause of an imbalance and treating it by eliminating the wrong foods from the diet and restoring the gut microbiome. Any of these symptoms occur if you have inflammation that is under control. Finding the root causes and then fighting them require time and patience.

2. You suffer from a mood disorder.

Scientists have found a connection between fatigue, pain, and depression which means that inflammation can be a link between fatigue, pain, and depression.

There are a lot of mood disorders that are connected to poor gut health. Fighting mood disorders like depression and anxiety often begin with healing the gut. A qualified gastroenterologist will plan the best treatment for you and thus will help you handle your anxiety and depression.

3. You experience uncomfortable bloating.

Bloating is the main sign of an imbalanced microbiome. Inflammation is a true cause of dysbiosis. Leaky gut is actually a description of the underlying diseases that we treat yet have failed to find a cure for. Leaky gut is a syndrome in which connections between the cells of the gut lining become looser, which allows larger molecules to pass through the gut wall. 

Your immune system always monitors your gut barrier but when the immune system faces these escaped big molecules, it starts to attack. In people who are predisposed to autoimmune disorders, gut issues can actually trigger any autoimmune disease.

4. You can’t lose weight.

Inflammation can prevent you from weight loss by activating fat storage. Things like healthy sleep, exercise, and proper diet may not help you. Untreated chronic inflammation tends to grow and increases your risk of obesity-related diseases like insulin resistance, which results in diabetes. Excess body fat enhances inflammation, which then makes your body store more fat.

Food sensitivities such as celiac disease and lactose intolerance lead to inflammation and make you weight loss resistant. Once you eliminate your food sensitivities, your inflammation will dial down, and you can finally lose those extra pounds.

5. You’re often stressed.

Stress is another major culprit of chronic overall inflammation. That’s why it’s crucial to learn stress management techniques. 

Being constantly stressed can activate your inflammatory response, which affects your gut and brain axis. This is due to the fact that when you are stressed, your body produces more catecholamines and cytokines (inflammatory proteins), which can disrupt your gut microbiome and damage your gut lining. 

A leaky gut allows endotoxin to enter your blood circulation making your immune system “stressed”. That’s why being stressed for a long time can worsen any and all the symptoms of inflammation you may be having in your body. According to several studies, about 75 to 90 percent of human diseases are linked to an overactivated nervous system.