inflammation
Healers of every modality and mindset are slowly, but surely, coming to the realization that all chronic, degenerative diseases are driven by unrelenting inflammation. Chronic inflammation is directly responsible for doing the vast majority of immune system dis-regulation, cell-cell communication failure, mitochondria injury, metabolic disruption, DNA replication error, and cell destruction. Therefore, the majority of damage that a disease causes is not done by the imbalance, symptoms, or germ itself, but by inflammation that the body employs to fight the disease.