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Exercise does trigger inflammation, and countering that inflammation can in fact degrade the positive effects of exercise. Inflammation is the body's signal to
by justinator 4y ago
Exercise does trigger inflammation, and countering that inflammation can in fact degrade the positive effects of exercise. Inflammation is the body's signal to rebuild and strengthen.
I obviously can't tell from your hn post (and IANA doctor), but sometimes I get headaches because I haven't drank enough water, or I've just gone out too hard.
- slowmovintarget 4y agoThis is right. The body has all kinds of mechanisms that use inflammation to repair and reshape. Exercise channels this into breakdown and strengthening of muscles, blood vessel enlargement, and a host of other beneficial tissue manipulations. Making sure you're adequately hydrated is important, as is supporting the cellular activity with nutrition. Where things go off the rails is when the body spends excess energy and inflammatory responses on things not connected to repair and replenish operations. You get acid reflux, allergies, tumors, even dementia-related diseases. Of course it's not that simple, but for nearly every single one of those pathologies, exercise improves the chances to avoid them, or helps reduce their negative outcomes. (IANA doctor either.)