Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

Post by nessunodoro » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:14 AM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

I found this area interesting: > “A fat cell is almost like a primitive immune cell,” says Hotamisligil. “It can request the assistance of immune cells when in trouble, but if the stress continues, and the immune cells remain, they start changing their character and behavior from helpful to harmful.” ... > When overloaded with stored lipid, fat cells begin to lose their functional and structural integrity and may sta…

Post by manmal » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:19 AM UTC

rossdavidh wrote: post #63

My prediction: 1) reducing chronic inflammation by, for example, exercise or eating better food, is proven to have good health effects 2) pharmaceutical companies try to make that into a pill 3) dang, the benefits of the pill are not nearly as big as if you exercise and eat better food, and not nearly as big as our early trials of the drug indicated they would be 4) we must need a different kind of pill

Post by skookumchuck » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:33 AM UTC

braink wrote: post #124

rossdavidh wrote: post #63

My prediction: 1) reducing chronic inflammation by, for example, exercise or eating better food, is proven to have good health effects 2) pharmaceutical companies try to make that into a pill 3) dang, the benefits of the pill are not nearly as big as if you exercise and eat better food, and not nearly as big as our early trials of the drug indicated they would be 4) we must need a different kind of pill

Bottom line: pharma sells pills to make money; they don't make money off of healthy people who don't take their pills. So long as we link the health industry to making profit, we are prioritizing profits over health.

Post by gnoppa » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:07 AM UTC

folli wrote: post #100

gnoppa wrote: post #85

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I'd predict the pharmaceutical pill will be damaging! Our body is very smart and heals most things by itself, given the right nutrition.

This sounds like some anti-vaxx reasoning.

Post by sametmax » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 10:13 AM UTC

jeffdavis wrote: post #88

andai wrote: post #5

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> Critics might suggest that inflammation is just a symptom in these diseases, rather than a cause. But Hotamisligil says, unequivocally, “Chronic inflammation is uniformly damaging and is absolutely causal to the process, because if you interfere with it, you can reverse the pathology.” And this ability to control such diseases simply by reversing inflammation is a biological response, dating far back to the time of…

If you interfere with the inflammation, doesn't that still leave the problem of lipids leaking?