[Music] someone's like hey here's this way to bring down inflammation don't just be like that's good or be like well that's stupid inflammation's great ask that next deeper level of question hey folks Dr Mike here for Renaissance periodization and I have to ask you a question is inflammation always bad the answer is no sorry didn't give you a chance to think that one through let's talk about this because there are a ton of Industries and people people and celebrities and doctors that are always trying to get you to buy products or do protocols or pay
them money so they can help you squash inflammation and G whiz inflammation seems like it's everywhere the gut is inflamed your body is inflamed your joints are inflamed you name it it's inflamed and it's always a bad thing and it's always a problem and more anti-inflammation always seems to be better problem there is not just one type of inflammation there are at least two categories of inflammation that concern Us in order to try to open up this intellectual conversation to learn some shit from it the first is local inflammation like my elbow is inflamed the
second is systemic inflammation which you can do with a variety of blood markers and other scans we say yeah like your systemic inflammation is a little higher than we like to see because of XYZ reasons at the very least those two things are different and potentially how you would address them or if you even would are also different next Point inflammation so first of all there's not just one type of inflammation first fallacy or part of this problem second is that inflammation can be a good thing what what how the F how is that possible
that it could be a good thing well hold on a sec local muscle inflammation the delayed onet soreness and tightness and weirdness you feel a few days after your muscles or a few hours after your muscles get trained is a big integral critical part of the remodeling an upgrading that your muscles receive in order to become bigger and stronger and we know for a fact pretty much that if you take high does powerful anti-inflammatories around your workout window you reduce the propensity for muscle growth from that workout what but I thought squashing inflammation was a
good thing in all cases cuz it's always bad well it turns out that's not the casee there is even a very convincing body of research that if you break your arm or pull a tendon off the bone and you get surgery to fix those things the recovery from that traumatic injury not even just muscle growth bone growth tendon growth that recovery can be muted to some extent slowed down less complete if you rely heavily on anti-inflammatories much of the time versus if you take them gingerly in the first few days to really keep the crazy
swelling down and then as soon as you're feeling better you either reduce the dose significantly or you stop which is to say high anti-inflammatory use leads to incomplete or a reduced rate of bone and tendon and connective tissue healing and ultr structural revision uh that's not good but yes like we thought inflammation was all bad but it turns it's critical to not only muscle growth in its fullest potential but also injury healing okay and interesting it gets complicated short bouts of local inflammation are very important to heal all sorts of damage including wound healing bone
and joint healing and muscle healing that causes hypertrophy over really all those systems and gets you back to normal and even above so is that it inflammation's good but is it bad of course it can be bad inflammation is usually bad when it's excessive by a long shot even locally if your elbow is this big 2 feet out is probably too much inflammation the body's inflammatory response is a general response that's uh designed to heal but sometimes so much inflammatory response enters that the pressure on the entire structure and the actual damage itself because of
the inflammation and all the fluid that it brings in is so high it's actually doing a little bit of secondary damage and potentially limiting the healing process so sometimes even local inflammation can be reduced a little bit when it's excessive and that's your doctor's decision in the injury process as to when to make that call and usually they're very very good at it but another thing is is inflammation is systemically high often that's a bad thing often that means your health could be better and maybe the inflammation can be brought down temporarily with drugs but
the better answer after that is to look at why chronic sorry why inflammation is high systemically because a lot of times it can be like wow like actually your liver is not doing the things that's supposed to be doing and glad that we did this inflammation test now we can fix your liver and the inflammation will go down and all that stuff so inflammation can be bad when it's excessive often bad when it's systemic and especially bad when it is chronic if your biceps get inflamed after training and then a day later they're no longer
inflamed and then you train them hard and then their cycle happen s shit you're winning awesome just acute bouts of inflammation are good for you they make you stronger and more resilient and are part of the Adaptive process itself but if the inflammation is chronic it's always hanging around and a way that does that without driving you completely insane is if it's chronic and low level if inflammation is chronic which means it's kind of there all the time if it's lowlevel that's a good thing in the sense that it's not fucking making your life hell
right away but a bad thing in the sense that if it's low level enough but above Baseline it's always there and you can barely or can't tell so you don't do anything about it you might not even know about it and lastly if it's systemic that spreads out the detection problem even more people who are unhealthy especially people who have metabolic syndrome and are highly obese tend to have a systemic low-level chronic total body inflammation now that shit is really fucking bad that demands attention of a medical professional it Demands a rigorous course of action
to try to undo the bad stuff like being of very large physical size and high level of atopos low physical activity poor nutrition uh not taking various medications having too high blood pressure so on and so forth these are the things that need fixing because in that context inflammation is actually very bad what do you get when PhD sport scientists collaborate with Pro bodybuilders the most effective muscle growth training app ever made get yours now tldr if you hear about inflammation someone's like hey here's this way to bring down inflammation don't just be like that's
good or be like well that's stupid inflammation is great ask that next deeper level of questions now hold on a sec what kind of inflammation are we trying to bring down are we trying to bring down inflammation during wound healing even though it's not excessive and just a little bit annoying bad idea don't do it let the inflammation do its thing which includes almost all muscle and strength stuff even if you have surgery or get into a really bad accident and you have to heal most of the inflammation you're going to get is good you
don't want to try to squash at all because it is temporary and it is healing you but if if the inflammation is excessive way too much impinging on various other structures and stuff like that but especially if it's low-level and systemic and chronic then yeah that anti-inflammatory stuff might be something to look for and the last thing I'll say about this is the following in a treatment of patient sense sometimes it's smart to just deal with the thing when it is but it's also smart to try to figure out why it was if you come
to the hospital with a massive headache they don't exactly go through like 18 trillion things of screening to find out why the headache is they're going to be like well how bad's the pain you're say 10 out of 10 I'm fucking screening they're going to try to give you headache medicine I promise does Motrin or morphine depending on the intensity of your headache actually treat the underlying potential cause of your headache in most cases the answer is no but first they squash the symptoms then we try to look for the cause then we squash the
cause then it doesn't come up again the same thing may be true with inflammatory response if someone says hey look you can take this herb and it'll bring your total body inflammation down that might be a good thing if normally the body produces too much inflammation and that's a bad thing but that's not likely to be the case what's likely to be the case is that because of bad health for a variety of other reasons you're overweight you're not physically active enough your diet's not healthy enough you have too much psychological and physical stress in
your life then your inflammation is high and if you take that herb temporarily hey shit you're squashing some systemic chronic inflammation and that's a good thing probably but what's even a better thing is yeah take the herb and shit like that but also try to figure out where is this High inflammation coming from could just be genetic your doctor's look you're doing everything right some people just have a high chronic inflammatory response and because you're taking this herb or this new medication you're just going to live longer and happier because your your your body just
built like fuck shit somebody God was like H fuck you zap you get chronic inflamation little bitch get out of here go be an embryo right all right fuck that that happens but in most cases that's not the case in most cases it's some shit you could fix that if you start attending to that getting into Better Health in a bunch of other ways you can eventually still take the herb and have really low inflammation or just not have to take the herb anymore because you fix the underlying problem so when everyone tries to give
give you the solution first this is the problem inflammation and we have the solution try to take back a few steps open up your thinking a bit and see if you can do just a little bit better folks thank you so much for tuning in and I'll see you next time
