How to Reduce Inflammation After a Heart Attack

Acute inflammation is a good thing. But then what happens if you put ice on an injury and you try to reduce inflammation? Are you telling the cavalry? Okay, don't come. You never give steroids after a heart attack for exactly the reason you just talked about. If you don't get the right cells there, then your body ramps up the inflammation because it says, hey, I said send me cells. And that's when a chronic inflammation cascade happens - not good.

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