Inflammation

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  I don't worry at all about my cholesterol
Apr 20, 2011
Its not high anyway, but there is scant science, correctly done, to make me worry. You worry if you want to.

Check Dr. Ravnskov's interview with Jimmy Moore and come away from it shocked. 
  Cellular Entropy
Feb 15, 2011
Increasing disorder within the cell is an instance of disorder, or entropy. Disorder is often called chaos, sometimes loosely. The loss of internal order is a form of disinformation. There are many such sources of damage or accumulation of disfunctional tissues inside the cell that lead to a loss of internal order. We have seen how autophagy clears out damaged tissues inside cells. Now, it is found that the accumulation of unneeded proteins, the elements that are cleaned up through autophagy, result in cellular disorder and death.
  Potential Paradigm Busters, Part 1: Viral Infection and Cardiovascular Disease
Nov 27, 2010
I am weary of hearing the same old, unsupported, dogmas about health. The same old villians keep turning up in reports, but the new ideas, often better supported and having real physiological mechanisms behind them, are neglected. It seems part of the reason is that these new ideas don't support interventions in how you live and what you eat or do. So, I plan to look at a few such instances, beginning with heart disease. The short answer is that heart disease is best explained by a viral infection.

Do you recall how the theory that a bacterial infection caused ulcers was rejected and then demonstrated by the doctor taking a dose of H. Pylori and developing an ulcer? He then cured the ulcer using a antibiotic that targeted H. Pylori. It was long thought that stress and stomach acid and all sorts of other things were involved. Of course, the acid and the inflammation in the stomach were attempts to kill the bacteria; they were not the "cause".

I think we are at about the same stage when it comes to atherosclerosis where wide spread inflammation of the blood vessels, adhesion of foam cells to the wall, and proliferation of cells and swelling of the vascular lining all seem to be the result of the immune system attacking a pathogen.