
healthJan 22, 202028:24pending
Eliminate Nagging Symptoms by Discovering Your Inflammation Type with Maggie Berghoff
About this episode
Maggie Berghoff, functional medicine nurse practitioner, joins JJ today and discusses how knowing your inflammation type gives you more information to better assess and treat your health. Maggie also gives some simple, free ways to lower inflammation in your body immediately. Listen today and learn something new!
Freebies From Today’s Episode
Get Maggie’s free Inflammatory Type Assessment by going to jjvirgin.com/inflammationtypes.
Main Points From Today’s Episode
Inflammation can flare up from many different things. Food, stress, the air you breathe can all contribute to increasing or reducing inflammation.
Knowing your inflammation type gives you more information when you go to see a medical practitioner. This information helps them diagnose and treat you more accurately.
There are some simple, free ways to reduce inflammation immediately. They are easy to incorporate into your daily routine.
Episode Play-By-Play
[2:57] Maggie’s reason for becoming interested in inflammation
[7:24] What exactly is inflammation?
[8:01] Explaining inflammation types
[9:25] How knowing your inflammation type informs how you treat what’s going on with your body.
[10:23] This information not only gives you a starting point, but helps you go in better prepared when you see your health practitioner
[11:44] One simple thing you can do now that makes a big impact on your health
[14:26] Add this before taking away anything
[16:50] We do this one every day, but focusing on the how is key
[20:20] Know what’s going on inside your body – listen to yourself.
Action Steps:
Eat and sleep by the clock.
Add before you take away when it comes to the food you eat.
Practice the breathing technique Maggie talked about; inhale in for 5 seconds, hold for 5, exhale for 5, hold for 5.
Mentioned in this episode:
Subscribe to Reignite Wellness with JJ Virgin
Become part of JJ’s community
JJ Virgin Official Facebook page
JJ Virgin on Instagram
JJ Virgin on YouTube
Specialty Functional Medicine Testing (Alan Hopkins)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Get every episode summarized
Each time Well Beyond 40 publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from Well Beyond 40

Unlocking Coffee’s Hidden Health Benefits
Well Beyond 40
May 1, 202614:21failed

Why Dr. Jayne Morgan Says Women Miss Heart Risks
Well Beyond 40
Apr 29, 202653:56failed

Why 10 Minutes of Exercise Is Enough
Well Beyond 40
Apr 27, 202617:18failed

The Healing Power of Methylene Blue
Well Beyond 40
Apr 24, 202613:57failed