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My journey to understanding chronic disease; What is the Zone? Why do you want to be in the Zone? How do you get into the Zone? Overview of the Zone Pro-resolution Nutrition system: a defined dietary pathway to the Zone; How inflammation keeps you alive and the Resolution Response keeps you well; Diet-induced inflammation; Markers of the Zone; Zone diet: reducing diet-induced inflammation; Fermentable fibre: the key to maintaining gut health; Omega-3 fatty acids: agents of resolution; Polyphenols: activators of our genes, guardians of our gut; Personalising the Zone Pro-resolution Nutrition system; Dietary facts and fallacies; Diet wars: comparison of the Zone diet with other diets; Zone protein: making the Zone diet even easier to follow; Zone Pro-resolution Nutrition for pregnancy, childhood and adolescence; Reaching peak sport and exercise performance; Why do we get fat? Why do we get sick? Why do we age? The future of medicine. APPENDICES: Further support; Glossary; Inflammation in detail; Metabolism; Energy-sensing gene transcription factors; AMP kinase and mitochondria; Gut physiology; Using Pro-resolution Nutrition to control viral infections