Dylan Scott

I mean, that's the essence of strength training.

So that is exactly, that kind of inflammation at the invisible level, that's desirable.

That's just a part of your body functioning as it's supposed to.

The third kind of inflammation and this other kind of invisible inflammation is what we're concerned about.

And I've come to think of it as this chronic, low-grade inflammation that is above those routine maintenance levels, that is not...

like sort of your body's normal homeostatic state of being.

And that kind of inflammation, which can persist over a long period of time, is the kind of inflammation that scientists and physicians are worried about that we're beginning to realize can be associated with a wide range of health problems.

Sure.

So I do think that your idea of sort of our bodies being agitated is really appropriate because there is increasingly evidence that it is...

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.