Dylan Scott
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 16 Sep
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Modernity itself are industrialized lifestyles that are at least contributing to this rise in chronic low-grade inflammation that leads to chronic health problems over time.
It was easily the most interesting thing that I learned in reporting out this story.
If you think about human beings and our immune system, those are things that develop over these
really long timelines, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.
When you think back to hundreds of thousands of years ago when modern humans were developing and their immune systems were evolving, we didn't live very long.
Any problem of while your inflammation is starting to slowly increase over time had a pretty finite endpoint if you're not living past 40.
It's not really going to become that much of a concern.
And at the same time, we were living in a world where there are all kinds of pathogens out there.
There are viruses and bacterias, as well as like, you know, physical risks that our body is confronting all of the time.
And we didn't have any kind of medical interventions to try to address it.
So basically like our immune systems evolved for pretty short lifespans compared to how long we live today and a really high infection risk compared to what we face today.
an unfortunate byproduct of our longevity is that our bodies do experience more inflammation over time.
Yeah, there's a lot of these things.
Honestly, Sally, all kinds of chronic health conditions are at least in part a byproduct of the fact that we live longer and our bodies just have more time for these problems to develop.
So there does seem to be this role of industrialization, you know, pollution, changes to our food production that is also playing a role in driving this chronic inflammation problem in addition to aging.
We don't face nearly as many infection risks from viruses or bacterias as we used to because we have modern sanitation and modern hygiene.
But we are still being exposed to all kinds of stuff like pollution and synthetic chemicals in our clothes.
And our immune system's natural response to that is to kick in the inflammation and try to respond to it.
But the thing is, it's not necessarily that there's a virus or bacteria or this sort of short-term health problem that our inflammation is able to respond to and then resolve.
Instead, it's just this miasma that we're living inside of that we're being exposed to all the time.
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