Ideally, CRP levels in the blood are under 1 mg/L,999 but, in the presence of infection, it can skyrocket within hours up to 100 mg/L or more.1000 Today, our highly sensitive CRP blood tests can measure levels to a fraction of a point, which has led the medical community to recognize that having baseline levels of just 2 or 3 mg/L may place us at increased risk of catastrophes like heart attacks and strokes. Baseline CRP levels below 1 mg/L denote lower risk, but most middle-aged Americans have levels that exceed this level,1001 suggesting that most suffer from chronic inflammation—chronic
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