Why do we actually want to reduce inflammation?

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The bodies natural response to an injury is to produce inflammation. I would assume thats the bodies response from milleniums of evolution so it serves a purpose in the healing of the injury? But the general consensus is once injured we do everything we can to reduce inflammation. I don’t understand and am obviously missing info / intepreting info wrong. ELI5

Or am I on the right track and this is why RICE isn’t recommended as much any more and heat is?

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It’s like the flu. We all need to go to work to finance our miserable lives, so we buy stuff to dry up our drippy noses, tylenol for the headache, and cough syrup for the scratchy throat.

The prescription from nature is to drink fluids, get lots of sleep, and stay home for a few days. But that car payment ain’t gonna make itself…

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