Dylan Scott

But being able to interpret that information and saying whether this is good, whether this is bad, and what we do about it, that's much murkier as the science stands today.

But trying to sharpen our understanding is the work that a lot of inflammation scientists are doing right now.

Measuring your inflammation is a way to get ahead of health problems that are sort of asymptomatic, at least for a long time, you know, before they get really serious.

And so that, to your point, sounds super appealing to me.

If it's like we can now have this indirect measure of things that are going wrong in your body before you ever sort of feel or notice them, you know, naturally going about your day, like that seems like the ideal for early intervention, which we know, you know, usually leads to better outcomes.

But we're still in the process of refining our understanding to be able to do that.

Yes.

And I should say, we do know things now...

that can help to improve your inflammation.

It's just like the most basic health advice in the world.

It's the old standby, Sally, of eating a healthy diet and especially eating a diet of whole foods, vegetables, fruits, things like that, exercise, stress, things like that, you know, that can perturb your immune system.

Yes, it makes some sense.

I mean, I'm not a doctor, but yeah.

I mean, it's this funny thing where it's like, I think that brings us back to the top of our conversation where it's like, there are these tests, there are these measures that you can take to try to assess the state of your inflammation.

And there's a lot of unscrupulous people who are willing to sell those to you and who are presenting more confidence about what you can understand from those measures than like,

actual scientists who work on this would say is appropriate.

And so I do think just the whole universe of inflammation testing, of interventions or tonics like CMOS, that's, I think, what arises in this gap between we know there's something going on here and we're understanding it more by the day and people wanting an answer right now.

And I think what these scientists worry about is people either trying out these approaches that are unproven and may just be pointless and not lead to anything, or obviously, God forbid, you have some kind of other health problems arise from whatever you're trying to do to address your inflammation.

Like this is in a way, I think one of the more underappreciated stories about modern medicine in general, which is like our ability to detect things often outpaces our ability to interpret them.

And that's true, not just for inflammation, but for all kinds of things, because we have developed these amazing technologies.