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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by sliverstorm on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:35PM (#3912150)
If I remember my health-nut mythology correctly, the theory is that inflammation (and especially inflammation related to blood sugar spikes) is believe to be a contributing factor to a lot of bad stuff: diabetes, cancer, aging, and so on.

Is daily inflammation a normal thing...? Maybe I'm just not observant enough, but I notice inflammation most often when I cut, bruise, scrape, or otherwise accidentally abuse my body - in which cases, memory tells me that (in the mild case) that's the right response.

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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by lunchbox on Monday April 30, 2012 @09:09PM (#3912472)
Inflammation is extraordinarily common. It underlies hundreds of diseases, from asthma to arthritis (in fact, any disease that ends in "-itis"). It often occurs inside the body (not just on the skin), so you could have inflammation right now and not know it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation#Inflammatory_disor...

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Re:Aspirin Really Is Kind of a Wonder Drug, Studies Continue... by sliverstorm on Monday April 30, 2012 @10:12PM (#3912650)
Sure, but shouldn't you try to diagnose the problem, instead of medicating yourself daily for phantom diseases you probably don't have?
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