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Why inflammation matters, and what we can do to fight it

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The Effects of Social Stress on Chronic Inflammation

The list is also very long. I can give you a few examples here of social stressors. The fact that we're comparing ourselves with all these influencers and rock stars, people want to be as famous as those individuals. We're also exposed to a very high load of our work times, right? So now we're going to occupational stress. There are very good papers, examples of experiments where we've seen caregivers of cancer patients which are a really good example of social stress. And we've seen that in cells from these individuals, there's major inflammatory biomarkers very high. When you try to bring that inflammatory response down with classical drugs, you cannot.

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