9 Little-Known Ways to Fight Inflammation

We're not going to tell you to exercise (though that helps)...and 3 of these you can do without even getting out of bed!

Avoiding junk food and getting enough exercise are good ways to fight inflammation...but those are hardly novel prescriptions.

We wanted to find some proven ways to fight inflammation in the body that are lesser-known...and hopefully a little more fun.

Here are our 9 top findings:

Get Grounded

Simply being grounded, or directly connected to the earth, seems to have a variety of surprising effects on the body.

In a review of the literature on grounding, the researchers concluded that "[g]rounding reduces pain and alters the numbers of circulating neutrophils and lymphocytes, and also affects various circulating chemical factors related to inflammation."(1)

You can actually see the inflammation reduction in the thermal imaging here.

All that, just for being connected to the ground directly or with a grounding device!