Dylan Scott

And so, yeah, it's like...

You can't escape it.

We live inside of modernity.

You step outside and there is air pollution.

You look at our clothes and they have these new synthetic chemicals that do inevitably seep into our skin and into our bodies a little bit.

Then especially,

With food and food processing, there's just this constant exposure to things that your immune system doesn't recognize and doesn't know what to do with and thinks that it wants to get rid of, but it never can because that exposure is continual and constantly renewed.

And so I think that's, I hope that's sort of a helpful way of thinking about how like your body is doing something that's natural in response to these unnatural exposures, but it's sort of an endless cycle, an endless loop that continues to drive this inflammation over time and eventually does lead to tissue damage and some of the more serious health problems that we worry about.

Yeah.

So there's I do think this is it's important to pause and say, like, this is where a lot of science is happening, like right now.

There's heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and dementia.

Those are, I think, the most studied and the most commonly cited ones.

And with something like heart disease, there does seem to be a pretty clear relationship.

But this picture is still coming into focus.

And oftentimes, there is a question of...

Is inflammation causing this chronic health problem, or is inflammation a symptom of this chronic health problem that's being driven by other factors?

You know, mechanistically, which direction are things moving?

Is at times something that scientists are still in the midst of figuring out and can be murky to them, even?

So I want to be clear about that.

But on a variety of things, there seems to be a pretty strong relationship