Dylan Scott

And I do think that's why, for totally natural reasons, people hear that and they're like, okay, what can I do to prevent that and get rid of this thing that's going to cause me all of these problems?

Look, it's a great question.

And we know at certain extremes, like if you have an enormous amount of some kind of inflammation-related biomarker, that probably means there's an underlying problem.

But we're still in the process of establishing baselines for what's normal.

There's...

something called immune monitoring programs at major health systems around the country.

And basically what they are trying to do is establish those baselines, collecting samples from all kinds of different people, collecting them from people over time, from people, you know, before they got sick, while they got sick, after they got sick, to try to just figure out at the most basic level, like what is normal and what is normal for different kinds of people.

Like,

You know, if you went into your primary care doctor right now and said, like, what's my inflammation?

I think they would just sort of, like, look at you like, huh?

What are you talking about?

And you probably wouldn't even necessarily think to ask that because all of this is so new in a lot of ways.

But it does seem possible that we're working towards a future where, like, we figured out the right things to measure to gauge your chronic inflammation.

We've figured out the right baselines against which to judge whatever we're able to measure.

And it could be that like in the future, you get like an inflammation score that's similar to like your blood pressure reading or your cholesterol level or your blood sugar or something like that.

Like the folks who are working on those programs today, like that's the future they're envisioning

and trying to work towards, but the work is still in progress.

We aren't there yet.

Right now, with a lot of these, and you'll see them hawked sometimes on these social media feeds of inflammation tests or something like that.

Yes, we have gotten to the point now where if certain kind of proteins are associated with inflammation,