Not all inflammation is bad. Supercompensation can't happen without it. In fact, taking anti-inflammatory substances during training can reduce the efficacy of training[0].
Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?
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#62Article is lacking in substance. It's conclusion is basically that there are two types of inflammation - one designed to attack parasites (worms, etc.) the other to attack bacteria and viruses. The theory it proposes is that because humans have basically eradicated parasitic infections, that part of the body becomes over active and leads to autoimmune disorders. 0 link to sources. I've never heard of this "dual infla…
Not just what the other reply said (standard immunology), this proposed theory itself is fairly standard - most immunologists would at least agree that our immune system is whack because we've eliminated parasites; they'll disagree only on the degree of importance of this particular fadotr
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#63Why does pain seem to underlie all sickness?
Inflammation is likewise usually a symptom, not the cause. And in the case of muscular injuries, it is generally helpful to the healing process.
The kind of imbalance mentioned in the article isn't really a culprit in most instances of sickness.
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#64Why does pain seem to underlie all sickness? Inflammation is likewise usually a symptom, not the cause. And in the case of muscular injuries, it is generally helpful to the healing process. The kind of imbalance mentioned in the article isn't really a culprit in most instances of sickness.
Inflammation is the body's way to protect the affected part. Giving it some "extra cover".
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#65Not all inflammation is bad. Supercompensation can't happen without it. In fact, taking anti-inflammatory substances during training can reduce the efficacy of training[0]. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5023714/
Thanks I’ve actually wondered about this for sometime!
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#66Because 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…
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#67Why does pain seem to underlie all sickness? Inflammation is likewise usually a symptom, not the cause. And in the case of muscular injuries, it is generally helpful to the healing process. The kind of imbalance mentioned in the article isn't really a culprit in most instances of sickness.
Inflammation underlies sickness the way police underlie crime. I mean, you always see police around when there’s been a crime, right?
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#68Article is lacking in substance. It's conclusion is basically that there are two types of inflammation - one designed to attack parasites (worms, etc.) the other to attack bacteria and viruses. The theory it proposes is that because humans have basically eradicated parasitic infections, that part of the body becomes over active and leads to autoimmune disorders. 0 link to sources. I've never heard of this "dual infla…
To reinforce the other repliers; people including doctors have deliberately infested themselves with hookworms to combat allergies.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
> Helminthic therapy, an experimental type of immunotherapy, is the treatment of autoimmune diseases and immune disorders by means of deliberate infestation with a helminth or with the eggs of a helminth. Helminths are parasitic worms such as hookworms, whipworms, and threadworms that have evolved to live within a host organism on which they rely for nutrients.
Re: Why Does Inflammation Seem to Underlie All Sickness?
#69Article is lacking in substance. It's conclusion is basically that there are two types of inflammation - one designed to attack parasites (worms, etc.) the other to attack bacteria and viruses. The theory it proposes is that because humans have basically eradicated parasitic infections, that part of the body becomes over active and leads to autoimmune disorders. 0 link to sources. I've never heard of this "dual infla…
>It's conclusion is basically that there are two types of inflammation - one designed to attack parasites (worms, etc.) the other to attack bacteria and viruses.
No, the article doesn't say that. It says there are many types of inflamation, it mentions several types of inflammation including in response to injury,and also autoimmune diseases, and it ends with a discussion of the possibility one of the many reasons inflammation goes wrong today is an imbalance between two particular types.
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#70Interesting to learn that inflammation is just like saying cancer. While the different types share the same base descriptor, they can be entirely different things.
Oddly so is the word fish there is no ocean creature that is a "fish" each is vastly different. It would be like referring to everything not in the ocean by a single name like "terreseta". Even though a camel and a snake are vastly different.