Inflammation: The Word Everyone Uses, Almost No One Defines

Share your thoughts"Inflammation" is the word of the wellness decade. It's on supplement bottles, in podcast titles, and on the back of every functional drink. But ask ten people what it actually means, and you'll get ten different answers — most of them muddled with weight, fatigue, or vague dread.In this fireside chat, Ashok and Meera Vasudevan clear the fog. The episode draws three lines most wellness conversations refuse to draw: the difference between acute inflammation (the body healing) and chronic inflammation (the body smouldering), the fact that inflammation is not the same as obesity (slim people can be chronically inflamed; people in larger bodies can be metabolically calm), and the most under-told truth in the conversation — what inflames you is not what inflames me.Drawing on 2025 systematic reviews and umbrella analyses, this episode names the villains (refined sugar, ultra-processed foods, industrial trans fats, excess alcohol), celebrates the angels (berries, leafy greens, fatty fish, walnuts, olive oil, turmeric, fermented foods), and then delivers the wisdom most podcasts won't: the lists are a starting point, not gospel. Dairy, wheat, and nightshades are the classic it depends foods. Your body is the real lab. N=1. You are your own study population.Five minutes. Evidence-based. A little cheeky. Zero panic.🎧 New episodes every Tuesday at 5am. 🌱 Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy is a CSAW production. 📩 Thanks for tuning in to "Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy"!Hosted by Meera & Ashok VasudevanStay Connected#PayTheFarmerNotThePharmacy#PlantBasedWellness#NaturalFood#AffordableWellness#GutHealth#ImmunityBoost#NutritionTips#CSAW (Centre for the Spread of Affordable Wellness)#Meeravasudevan#Ashokvasudevanhttps://umaglobalfoods.com/https://csaw.cohttps://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/pay-the-farmer-not-the-pharmacy/id1512934794https://open.spotify.com/show/34nzNQQ62O8tygMaut2h8V