So why is the inflammation that goes to heal something and last for three to seven days good, but the inflammation that accumulates in our body chronically over time and just kind of stays bad?

Well, the immune system has evolved to protect us from infectious disease, protect us from injury.

When we have a cut or we have any trauma, the immune system will repair that trauma.

It's beneficial.

And that's the purpose of the immune system as a sensory system.

I usually like to call the immune system our sixth sense.

So you're sensing the environment, you're reacting to it, and you're mobilizing immune cells.

And then because I feel like the conversation about what might be contributing to sustained chronic inflammation is almost like the corollary of the conversation about what might we do about it.

How do I know if the reason that I don't feel good is because of inflammation?

There is a direct connection, uh, between feeling well and having, you know, inflammation or not having inflammation.

When you're stressed, for example, you know, the chronic stress that you know is causing harm, uh, it, it is associated with inflammation.

Social stress, I'm, I'm referring to.

So there's been these very large studies showing that, for example, in caregivers of cancer patients.

They don't have cancer.

They're just normal people that are under a lot of stress.

Yeah.