Does inflammation cause chronic diseases?

This clip is from episode # 301 of The Drive, AMA #59: Inflammation: its impact on aging and disease risk, and how to identify, prevent, and reduce it

In the full episode, they discuss:

- Acute vs chronic inflammation
- The impact of inflammation on metabolic health
- How exercise influences inflammation
- And more

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[joas]

Please don't speed up the footage, it gives me inflammation.

[practicechannel-qx]

Amen. Thank you thank you. People need to understand this. I think tonnes of mental health is related to inflammation

[drstephyoung]

Inflammation is not the CAUSE of disease, as you mentioned it is ASSOCIATED with disease. Many things can be associated and not the cause and in-fact the PROTECTIVE RESPONSE. Every time I cut my finger a scab is associated does that mean if we see it again and again in observational studies that it might be the cause. No. Because we understand clearly that scabs form as the healing response to damage. Likewise if someone has high levels of inflammation ANYWHERE it is the healing response to damage which is why we continue to see it in every aspect of disease. I can’t believe so many people miss this. People have to stop damaging themselves if they want their scabs to stop forming (inflammation). Inflammation is never a cause it is a effect

[inlifeandfitness]

And in many case, inflammation is caused by stress. Take it easy, everybody. I know, easier said than done 🙏🏻

[JoePoon-ur]

Glycation in blood vessels including advanced glycation end products is "chronic inflammation" and the ancestor of the 4 horsemen ?

[BobMimsIV]

Thanks for all you do. Changing my life.

[RoyseLaw]

Thanks for speeding this up and getting to the point within my short attention span. Substantively, what can I do with this? ie how do I lower inflammation?

[ryanjnaudi]

Peter Attia shorts played at 2X the speed… annoying and distracting!

[Anonymity]

You should totally fire your shorts editing team. Unless of course, if you are doing it yourself.

[antonmarchuk]

What is inflammation? I have a joint inflammation after gym exercise done wrong. Does that count?

[glynnjeff]

Are you saying "No" to inflammation causing the 4-horsemen of chronic diseases, but you do believe that high inflammation does cause disease? Therefore,
treatment would be to reduce high inflammation in the body (meditation, deep breathing, enough restful sleep, healthy eating pattern, relationships, movement, balanced stress exposure)...

Leads me to ask, which lab results do you look at to identify high inflammation?

[johnd]

What kind of inflammation is he referring to?

[adamwood]

I’ve been watching Peter for years and just now realized who he reminds me of!

“Life, uh finds a way.”

[Sunnyfield]

And someone translate this he speaks so quick I can hardly process it

I get that he says inflammation doesn’t cause but it contributes…. The point is he making?

[capndenito]

So why have all the "medical gurus" decried the 81mg dose of daily aspirin that was recommended for all those years? To sell $$$ substitutes no doubt. The efficacy of that little daily dose as an anti- inflammatory was discarded/discounted? I will continue to take that 81mg as it has done no harm to me and there is "new" research on the value of "common" aspirin. No aches, pains in my 81st year.

[ruxxza]

Dear editor, please slow down these Shorts by a little bit. I get that you’re trying to fit more content into less time, but I think we can all spare 20 more seconds of our lives for a short if it means we can fully ABSORB all the information. Thanks

[Baby-hhkx]

This guy wouldn’t be as popular as he is, if he didn’t approve of pharmaceutical drugs. He is slippery, watch him.

[dcdno_one]

Dude… you’re mixing up the dependent and independent variable. Inflammation, much like Vitamin D deficiency, is better explained as a dependent variable not an independent variable 🤦🏻‍♂️