Inflammation

I am writing this while on “holiday” this week, holiday when you have small children is a relative term. Last week we talked about sustained inflammatory responses to bacterial infections. Ideally bacterial infections should be short and sweet, once we muster an immune response. But the effect of inflammation even when its dropping down can still be present and have quite an effect on mood…

“I’ve seen the GP, they say all my blood test results are normal” I get that a lot and back in the day, that would have been the end of it, no further investigation or consideration required. Case closed. But often those patients didn’t respond as I and they had hoped, so I got curious. I started requesting the GP blood test results to see…