What YOU (sometimes) feel is pain, redness, and swelling. What your cells feel, are signals from your immune system (cops) to "freeze and stop doing shit". Thi

What YOU (sometimes) feel is pain, redness, and swelling. What your cells feel, are signals from your immune system (cops) to "freeze and stop doing shit". This message is delivered in the form of cytokines. What happens inside the cell, is metabolism slows, and recycling begins. Too much of this leads to atrophy. At the organ level, this causes various diseases of aging. Muscle wasting. Brain atrophy. Liver disease (alcoholic or dietary).