: What exactly happens when you get muscle soreness from flu or diseases alike ?
In: Biology
Your body prioritizes resources and energy use. Our muscles are constantly damaged from use, cells are being replaced, but when your body gets to fight the disease mode it reacts to everything harder. This causes inflammation everywhere where there is damage. Inflammation causes pain. Add to that to your body fixing itself slower. This leads to aches in the muscles.
Our immune systems isn’t as targeted as we like to think it is. When it ramps up, it ramps up everywhere.
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