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Congratulations on your launch! I apologize in advance for my ignorant questions, but here they go. How can we be certain that inflammation is causing problems

by doix 4y ago

Congratulations on your launch! I apologize in advance for my ignorant questions, but here they go. How can we be certain that inflammation is causing problems rather than just being an indicator that something is wrong? As in, if we start directly lowering inflammation with some drug or whatever, how do we know that it's helping rather than just masking the problem? So if someone is obese and inactive, but they start eating ginger to reduce their inflammation markers, would that improve quality of life? I guess the best example(as someone that is completely ignorant on the topic) I can come up with is heart rate and exercise. We know that an elevated heart rate when exercising is good and provides benefits. But increasing the heart rate with caffeine does not provide the same benefits. Coming from software where I can use a debugger to examine "exactly" what is going on in a program and an ex hardware engineer where we had simulators/models that were "pretty accurate", medicine/healthcare looks insane. We cannot model the human body accurately nor can we observe in great detail the processes that go on. I'm pretty amazed medicine is as good as it is with those limitations.

Snehpatel1 4y ago
I will now apologize in advance if I am not answering the question :) Overall, we recommend healthy lifestyle habits versus drugs to manage inflammation levels.
thomasfedb 4y ago
The body is nuts. Fascinatingly and amazingly nuts. I think an honest answer to your question is "we can't be certain". In fact we can probably be fairly confident that "inflammation" (as if that's one simple thing) is not going to be quite so straightforward. A person who is obese and sedentary might get some benefit from a "magic drug" that prevents the effects of inflammation, but they'd be far better advised to adopt a more active lifestyle before they put their hopes on ginger.

by doix 4y ago

Snehpatel1 4y ago

I will now apologize in advance if I am not answering the question :) Overall, we recommend healthy lifestyle habits versus drugs to manage inflammation levels.

thomasfedb 4y ago

The body is nuts. Fascinatingly and amazingly nuts. I think an honest answer to your question is "we can't be certain". In fact we can probably be fairly confident that "inflammation" (as if that's one simple thing) is not going to be quite so straightforward. A person who is obese and sedentary might get some benefit from a "magic drug" that prevents the effects of inflammation, but they'd be far better advised to adopt a more active lifestyle before they put their hopes on ginger.