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This is very interesting. Is there any way one can check if one is suffering from inflammation?

• WalterSear 12y ago
  You might as well check for your pulse: inflammation isn't a disease, it's a signaling system used by your body. The problem is that often your body reaction has potential to causes problems of it's own. Think of it like the police. For some things (white person is speeding, deserves a ticket), their reaction can be fine and appropriate. Under other circumstances (black person selling cigarettes illegally), they are more of a problem than the one they are intended to solve.
• Alex3917 12y ago
  Yes, you can just ask your regular doctor to do this for you. Although if you happen to already have a sports medicine doctor, they might be more accustomed to doing these sorts of tests. Harj actually has a post on this here: http://blog.harjtaggar.com/my-experiments-with-preventing-heart-disease http://blog.harjtaggar.com/my-experiments-with-preventing-he... Your inflammation levels can vary a lot throughout the day and week though, so unless you're going to get it measured 10+ times then you're probably not going to get great data. So it might just be easier to look for an open clinical trial that you can enroll in where they will do this for you for free.