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A Silent Fire - Shilpa Ravella

A Silent Fire

The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2024
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-07432-8 (ISBN)
CHF 26,15 inkl. MwSt
“Fascinating.…[Ravella’s writing] breathes life into biological functions.” —Grace Wade, New Scientist

A riveting investigation of inflammation—the hidden force at the heart of modern disease—and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it.
Inflammation is the body’s ancestral response to its greatest threats, the first line of defense it deploys against injury and foreign pathogens. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science is uncovering how inflammation may also turn against us, simmering underneath the surface of leading killers from heart disease and cancer to depression, aging, and mysterious autoimmune conditions.

In A Silent Fire, gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden inflammation’s emerging role as a common root of modern disease—and how we can control it. We meet the visionary nineteenth-century pathologist who laid the foundation for our modern understanding of inflammation, the eccentric Russian zoologist who discovered one of the cells central to our immune system, and the dedicated researchers advancing the frontiers of medical and nutritional science today. With fascinating case studies, Ravella reveals how we can reform our relationships with food and our microbiomes to benefit our own health and the planet’s.

Synthesizing medical history, cutting-edge research, and innovative clinical practice, Ravella unveils inflammation as one potential basis for a unifying theory of disease. A paradigm-shifting understanding of one of the most mysterious, buzzed-about topics in medicine and nutrition, A Silent Fire shows us how to live not only long but well.

Shilpa Ravella is a transplant gastroenterologist with expertise in nutrition and an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, New York magazine, Slate, Wall Street Journal, and Discover, among other publications.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 211 mm
Gewicht 275 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Gastroenterologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-324-07432-9 / 1324074329
ISBN-13 978-1-324-07432-8 / 9781324074328
Zustand Neuware
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