Over the past three weeks, we’ve talked at length about eating against inflammation. And it’s true that food is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal to fight against inflammation. However a robust anti-inflammatory plan includes key lifestyle factors such as stress management, sufficient sleep and regular movement.

First, let’s look at stress. You may know that stress activates your sympathetic nervous system (also known as your flight or fight response.) When it comes to an anti-inflammatory plan, we want to do the opposite and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, or the r...