Sally Helm

I do feel like I need to ask a kind of basic question before we go much further here, which is, Dylan, what is inflammation?

And it's like, okay, great.

Yes.

Get it gone.

I don't want that in there.

I mean, and what you're saying, like, cold virus, wound, we've, like, felt and seen that.

Like, I can imagine my throat being swollen if I have a cold.

But the scary thing is that it sounds like...

There's this secret other inflammation that can happen where it's just like invisible, microscopic in your whole body.

Tell me about that.

Is that the bad one?

And I'm even thinking like, I guess if you like lift weights or work out or something, like,

Exactly.

Well, we want that.

I mean, we need that type of thing.

All right.

So I'm just recapping.

Inflammation happens when your body goes into like defense mode and your immune system sends blood containing like chemicals to help fight pathogens or heal a wound.

And I can imagine why blood flowing to an area could lead to redness and swelling and heat and all those things.

But it sounds like the concern is that being in constant defense mode like this can actually cause its own problems.