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Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by scns »

_bxg1 wrote: post #30

It's perfectly intuitive to me. Taking things further, anxiety could be seen as inflammation of the mind and social unrest as inflammation of a society. Each, in the right amount, serves as an important corrective mechanism for dealing with threats. But in excess, each becomes a gradually destructive force. Anxiety and physical inflammation are even directly correlated, and social unrest and anxiety probably are too.

Anxiety looks to me more like an allergy of the mind: a useful survival system that does not have much to do in our safe environment and overreacts on perceived threats which are actually harmless.

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by m-p-3 »

bfieidhbrjr wrote: post #28
Gpetrium wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find it difficult to agree to this statement from a holistic perspective since there are many unknowns that the average individual has little to no control over. For example, how do you, as an individual, can control the air quality in your vicinity [1]? the water quality [2]? soil? pesticide/procurement/logistics of food? Work environment? Family environment? What do you do and how do you control the quality of al…

You can move? That’s what I did.

Financial capacity can be an obstacle.

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by huherto »

scns wrote: post #40
nitrogen wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are falling lessons? Judo?

Judo is good for learning to fall, otherwise not that much IMO.

I disagree. I was by far the smallest kid in my grade, but I took a couple of years of judo when I was 7. It was really useful as I grew up. A big equalizer for me. It does give you an intuitive sense of how to move and a shift your weight in your favor. Even if you fall, you end up falling on top of the other kid. As an adult and for personal defense I think Judo comes right after BJJ and wrestling.

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by ip26 »

ianai wrote: post #7
api wrote: post #6

Isn't it part of the body's response to sickness? Why does screaming tend to underlie all stabbings?

Screaming doesn’t worsen stabbing wounds, directly. But inflammation does often (in all the examples I’ve read) worsen the triggering illness.

Sure it does, panic & exertion makes you bleed out faster...

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by carapace »

Ididntdothis wrote: post #25
bfieidhbrjr wrote: post #10

Because we pretty much solved all the acute illnesses so we are left with self-inflicted chronic conditions. Pretty much all non-genetic chronic conditions are a result of diet and exercise. You can drastically reduce your chances of cancer, stroke, heart attack, alzeihmers, T2 diabetes, Parkinson’s.... you name it, with diet and exercise. You can even cure most of them with diet and exercise. I’ll be downvoted to ob…

"illness is a choice" I was with you until you wrote this. Instead of encouraging people to live better because they can reduce their chances of getting sick (I agree with that) you took it a step further and into negative territory. Just say that a lot of chronic conditions can be improved by better lifestyle. Don't blame the victim.

"Omit that last sentence." is advice that applies well to a lot of comments on HN.

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by polynomial »

_bxg1 wrote: post #30

It's perfectly intuitive to me. Taking things further, anxiety could be seen as inflammation of the mind and social unrest as inflammation of a society. Each, in the right amount, serves as an important corrective mechanism for dealing with threats. But in excess, each becomes a gradually destructive force. Anxiety and physical inflammation are even directly correlated, and social unrest and anxiety probably are too.

Yeah I don't know that sounds entirely too logical.

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by meinstream »

twic wrote: post #14
zby wrote: post #4

The article does not really support the implicit thesis from the title - it lists some diseases that are caused by bad inflamation, some items are maybe surprising - but it does not mention diseases that obviously have different causes like infections. Overall clickbait with no content.

Even in infections, it can be the inflammatory response which causes the damage. I had myocarditis following a flu infection, but it wasn't the influenza virus that screwed up my heart muscle, it was the white blood cells going apeshit trying to kill it.

Out of interest, how did you find out it was the white blood cells that were hurting the heart muscle? I have a history of myocarditis without any proper diagnosis.

Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?

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Post by journalctl »

polynomial wrote: post #48
_bxg1 wrote: post #30

It's perfectly intuitive to me. Taking things further, anxiety could be seen as inflammation of the mind and social unrest as inflammation of a society. Each, in the right amount, serves as an important corrective mechanism for dealing with threats. But in excess, each becomes a gradually destructive force. Anxiety and physical inflammation are even directly correlated, and social unrest and anxiety probably are too.

Yeah I don't know that sounds entirely too logical.

Because it’s not. It tries to make biological truth out of an analogy.
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