By RNZ Why metabolism and modern diet are driving inflammation . When ear, nose and throat surgeon Dr Casey Means noticed her patients were presenting with conditions ending in “-itis”, she realised inflammation was the root cause of their complaints. “In medical speak, any word that ends with ‘-itis’ [is] a condition fundamentally rooted in inflammation, the immune system revving up and causing swelling in the body,” she told RNZ’s Afternoons .
“Anyone who’s been to an ENT doctor, they know it’s a lot of -itis: it’s sinusitis, thyroiditis, laryngitis, otitis, cellulitis, the list goes on and on and on..
