Inflammation: The body’s beneficial response to injury, OR the cause of most chronic diseases.

What Is Inflammation? - April 2026

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  • "An Essay on the Body’s Repair System and the Medical Industry Built on Suppressing It"
  • "Read those two positions together. Inflammation is the body’s beneficial response to injury. Inflammation is the cause of most chronic diseases. The same institutions hold both positions simultaneously, in the same literature, sometimes on the same page."
  • "One of these positions must be wrong. If inflammation is a beneficial response to injury — a repair process — then it cannot also be the cause of the diseases it is responding to. The establishment has identified the smoke and declared it the fire."
  • "The distinction matters because it determines treatment. If inflammation is the cause, suppression is logical. If inflammation is the response, suppression is catastrophic. The entire architecture of modern pharmaceutical intervention for chronic disease rests on which of these two positions is correct."
  • " The global market for anti-inflammatory drugs tells you which position the industry chose. NSAIDs alone — ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, diclofenac, celecoxib — constitute a market valued at over twenty-two billion dollars annually."
  • . . ."“Inflammation is simply a great increase in the amount of blood in a circumscribed area of the body.”
  • "Inflammation that does not resolve indicates that the damage has not been fully repaired — or that the cause of the damage is ongoing."
  • "Inflammation is never the problem. Inflammation is always the repair crew. The only real question is: what’s causing the damage? Find that, and stop it, and the repair crew finishes the job and goes home "

Vitamin D fights most Inflammations ( and prevents some)

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