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The Inflammation Theory of Disease

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The Evolution of Chronic Inflammation

We're in this transition period right now where our bodies are like, this is all wrong and this is all disease. And that evolutionary mismatch is what causes chronic inflammation and hence those diseases. A lot of these new things that we humans expose ourselves to don't really jibe with the way that we evolved to live.

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