While some health advocates believe raising awareness about inflammation is important, the MAHA movement has twisted it, devaluing the struggles chronically ill people with inflammatory disorders actually face. …
This inflammation craze did not start with the MAHA movement. It has been present in wellness circles for years. Current Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head Dr. Mehmet Oz has promoted a wide variety of unproven supplements and diets that supposedly reduce inflammation. If you scroll on TikTok, you’ll find absurd claims that people need to be brought into ketosis to bring down inflammation, as well as promotion of many supplements.
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… We would die if we did not have any inflammation, immunologist and biomedical scientist Andrea Love told me. People have inflammation around cuts, for instance, as it is our body’s way of healing itself.
“It’s constantly occurring in your body at all times, and it’s actually critical for processes,” said Love, who runs the informational website Immunologic. …
However, “there’s often this nugget of truth,” Love said, when it comes to popular discourse around inflammation. …. That’s what helps make pseudoscience around inflammation so effective.
