For decades, medical experts have tried to minimize the inflammation of damaged tissue, often with powerful anti-inflammatory drugs. Now comes research that could change all that. EurekaAlert reports that scientists at the Neuroinflammation Research Center/Department of Neurosciences/Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic have learned that natural inflammation actually speeds the regeneration of damaged tissue, and now believe that minimizing that inflammation is one of the worst things doctors can do. The researchers worked with two groups of mice, one of which was genetically altered so they could not mount inflammatory responses to acute injury, and a second, normal group. Each group experienced muscle injury induced by barium chloride. The muscle injury in the first group of mice did not heal, but in the second group, their bodies repaired the injury. The researchers also found that the presence of inflammatory cells (macrophages) in acute muscle injury produce a high level of a growth factor called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) which significantly increases the rate of muscle regeneration.
Health, fitness and lifestyle tips for people over 50 who still like to play hard
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Our bodies are near perfect. No Treatment, drug, or combo will ever do what the body can naturally. Though it will be later, than sooner, and for some too late unfortunately before we accept this fact. Eat only good food, exercise, stay active, and maintain good thoughts, and you will make your body Alkaline, and you will never be sick, never develop a disease, and if you do catch something your immune system will attack it and send it out. This is a fact, not theory. Wondering why you haven’t heard this before if you haven’t? I’m not.
Wonderful theory and good to practice but I wonder what Doug’s qualifications are??
Unfortunately, this is not a fact and relies on totally vacuous propositions like, maintaining “good thoughts,” and eating “good food.” Also if it is not a theory than what is it? Just a “fact?” How about hypothesizing based on this “fact,” until you arrive at a working theory?
“you will never be sick, never develop a disease…”
More or less agree with you Doug, BUT never say never.
I don’t have any qualifications. I have reasoning. I can read, so I research. I also have faith in what I have found to be the truth, amongst a vast supply of lies, and that is what I speak, the truth. Pick up any of Andrew Weil’s books on the subject. He has all the qualifications. He is an M.D. Our Bodies have the ability to heal itself, as well as prevent disease. It takes good food, the right attitude, and an active lifestyle. This is not taught here in the West. Too much money being made here in opposing beliefs. Health was never the motivator that the “all mighty dollar” is.
okay, I admit that I didn’t use the best words there to express my humble little opinion. Let me make some changes. I’ll change “good thoughts” to “a positive attitude”, and I’ll change “good food” to “food not grown or processed with chemical additives”. The “fact” is clearly used correctly, and last, I’ll change “theory” to “conjecture”. okay, all fixed! Sorry, I shoulda stayed in School.
WOW– MY BODY HAS BEEN IN-FLAMMED FOR YEARS– ESPECIALLY WITH FIBROMYALGIA-(MYOSITIS)– AND NOW– I’M WONDERING IF THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY ON THE MARK ABOUT THIS! THIS IS REALLY A EYE OPENER! KEEP RESEARCHING FOLKS!
I totally go along you! I have often felt that way but nobody really would like to take it as seriously as we do apparently. Excellent blog anyway, I am going to have to stop by more frequently.