Is it chronic inflammation itself that is inherently bad for health, or is chronic inflammation just a marker for bad health? Is whatever is prompting the inflammation that is actually causing harm? In other words, is it bad to inhibit inflammation if it's actually helping something, as you would think?
If you could somehow take something every single day to keep inflammation low and have no other side effects (like what people like to think about turmeric, whether that holds water or not), is that actually even a good thing?
High blood pressure, for example, is according to some (including John McDougall if I am not kstaken) not really the disease in the typical sense people make it out to be. It is the body doing all it can to push nutrients to all corners of a body that has poor blood flow etc. By lowering blood pressure artificially, it is in fact likely that you are doing some harm along with the good you are trying to do.
So could it be a similar case for chronic inflammation? Could artificially trying to inhibit inflammation, especially if you're already generally healthy, in fact be inhibiting the body from doing good for itself?
Or does the body really have a major flaw that everyone always refers to, in getting inflamed and then overdoing it and not "knowing" when to cut back on that inflammation? As if the body is so flawed as to keep itself hampered when, gosh darn it, if it would just relax and pull back the reins on all this unnecessary inflammation, it would be way better off.
