This ebook excerpt from Inflammation Mastery, 4th Edition (ISBN 978-0990620488 / 0990620484) contains the basic diet and nutrition information from the first component of Dr Vasquez's "functional inflammology protocol" for the understanding and treatment of inflammatory diseases, categorized as 1) metabolic inflammation (hypertension, diabetes, migraine, fibromyalgia), 2) allergic inflammation (food allergy and asthma), and 3) autoimmune inflammation (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, SLE or lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, vasculitis, and other rheumatic diseases). This ebook version is embellished with colorful diagrams and text with hyperlinks to videos and full-text articles; as such, it is best viewed on a sufficiently large screen such as a computer/iPad/tablet in color. Minor corrections/addenda were added to the book on May 28, 2016; those who purchased the original version can download the updates from Amazon/Kindle.