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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Further to the answers you’ve got – I think a core misunderstanding is that you think our bodies’ responses are great. They are good, but they’ve evolved for a very different past (eg for passing on chromosomes, not making our lives better) and aren’t perfect or even close.
So, for example, your body will try to get rid of infections by giving you diarrhea. But that diarrhea can kill you too. It’s a simple and extreme response to a complex problem, and medicine is often better.
People sometime have the idea about fevers. Fevers can kill you too, and the idea that anti-fever medicine makes our immune systems weaker is not accurate. Our bodies and immune systems can harm while trying to help.
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