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Inflammation: The Body’s Fire Alarm

You cut your finger and it becomes red, warm, swollen, and painful.

That reaction may be uncomfortable but it is also part of the system helping keep you alive.

So why has inflammation become one of the most feared words in modern health?

In the first episode of Inside Your Biology, we go inside the immune response to understand what inflammation actually is, why the body creates it, and how a protective process can sometimes become harmful.

We explore acute versus chronic inflammation, immune signaling, blood vessels, white blood cells, tissue repair, infection, exercise, metabolic health…

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