Research has linked bad diet and stressful lifestyle habits to all the chronic, debilitating, degenerative diseases that make up today’s world health crisis. When I was in my 20’s I lived in Boston where the Kushi Institute touted the benefits of a macrobiotic lifestyle to create extraordinary health of mind, body and soul.

Acute injuries create a predictable inflammatory response: redness and heat from an immediate increase in blood flow, nerve compression which causes pain and an increase of white blood cells which causes the swelling.