Dylan Scott
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698 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6d ago
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But I think we have to remember that, like, our relationship to fire is complicated.
Like, fire is certainly a destructive force at times, but it can also be a cleansing force.
Like, fire is natural, even like, you know,
Huge forests need fire sometimes to sweep through and clean things up and allow something new to grow on top of it.
And I think it's similar with inflammation, where we have a complicated relationship to it.
Some level of inflammation is absolutely necessary for our bodies to function as they should, but much like fire, too much of it can start to cause serious problems.
In essence, inflammation is your immune system going into attack mode and either sending immunity cells or other kinds of chemicals that your body can release to try to get rid of some outside invader that your body perceives as having infiltrated it and wants to get rid of to keep you healthy.
And so, obviously, if that outside invader is a cold virus or the influenza virus or some bacteria or something like that, that's what we call acute inflammation.
And that's something that we've known about for ages.
Even ancient doctors knew that the body goes into some kind of response when you get sick.
I mean, yeah, for this kind of acute inflammation that we're talking about in response to a virus or a bacteria or a wound, you know, back in the ancient times that you might've gotten on the battlefield or something, you know, the red skin or puffy skin that can surround a wound and like, it can be painful.
It can feel hot, but at the same time, that is like your body responding to a problem and trying to fix it.
And so, I mean, my sense is that the word developed because it has these literal associations with heat.
But I do think it's created this problem unintentionally where it just sounds like something negative.
Inflammation sounds like something that you want to get rid of.
And it certainly, like, put me in a different mind space when I learned that, like, oh, no, like, inflammation is, you know, it's your body repairing itself.
Like, that sounds positive, but it's not maybe, like, where your mind naturally goes when you hear the word inflammation.
So as one of the scientists I talked to for my story put it, every cell in your body can experience inflammation.
Oh, God.
A lot of that inflammation, to your point, is happening at the molecular level that we're never going to be able to perceive with our own eyes.
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