Lung inflammation is a terrible thing and not to be dismissed. My Dad had scarring of his lung tissue cause unknown it's called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Some thing or inflammation damaged his lungs I don't think and I hope it wasn't genetic but there familial part to it.
I could tell by the sound of his breathing ten years before he was officially diagnosed that something was wrong I thought his heart due to family history but hindsight is 20/20. I'm the same age now as when he first started sounding bad when he was breathing. His father my grandfather died of emphysema not sure if related since my grandfather was a smoker.
My Dad's doctor said cancer would be easier to treat. Dad made it another ten years past a diagnosis of three years he was given to live but he lived in dread all that time. What really got him in the end was anxiety not so much the disease.
Yeah, I knew someone with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Came out of nowhere and in a couple short years they needed a lung transplant. No explanation, no cure, in an otherwise healthy person.
My mom died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis resulting from "interstitial lung disease," which is a nasty progressive feedback loop of inflammation, scarring, and reduced lung volume. She'd cough, which would make small tears, which would scar, which would mean there was less working lung around later.
Her lifestyle was a contributing factor. She didn't smoke but her house was full of pet dander and she used a wood stove.
I do have the exercise-induced reactive airway thing to which she attributed her frailty early on, so maybe I'll go the same way.
It is an interesting study in mice but so oddly specific that I wonder why it's on HN?
But saving lungs is important because alveolar regeneration is currently an impossible technological fantasy and most lung transplant patients die after a few years from organ rejection.
All those transplant stories you heard in 2020 from the alpha/beta forms of covid destroying lungs are either gone now or on their way (or looking at another transplant)
There's still no cure for ARDS/COPD which is a slow death sentence but during my post-covid research when I thought I had permanent severe lung damage I found this one Professor "Robert Stockley" at University Hospital Birmingham who has been testing various things since the 1990s like Vitamin A derivatives (Retinoids) to reverse lung damage. He's found things that work in animals but not humans.
At a very high level, I am very interested in the general concept that sometimes, the same thing that causes you a problem can be the solution to the problem.
Examples I have come up with so far:
1. radiation: causes cancer, but preferentially kills cancer cells
2. glue: sticks, but can be used to dissolve old glue to separate stuck things
3. violence: threat of mutually assured destruction can lead to peace, theoretical
4. infection: stimulates your immune system against further infection
5. Muscular injuries. In my experience the vast majority of the time the answer to a muscle injury has been to exercise that muscle at lower intensity. This applies to delayed onset muscle soreness, pulled muscles, and everything that’s not an overuse injury (which takes experience to identify).
This does NOT apply to joint and connective tissue injuries.
Even an overuse injury in some cases. For some reason I'm prone to tendonitis with repetitive loading - think digging, or sets when lifting. The solution is to increase blood flow by doing the same movement that gave me tendonitis, but at a MUCH lower intensity.
(ancient concept, when there was a big fire approaching, small fires were started to burn into the direction of the big fire, so in the end the big fire had nothing more to consume)
Giving peanut oral immunotherapy—daily doses of peanut flour—to children ages 1 to 3 with peanut allergies desensitized most and induced remission of the allergy in 21%.
one of our kid’s friend had a peanut allergy and at twice had to travel by helicopter to a suitable hospital. Always had an epipen at birthday parties. Very diligent family leaving the kid home alone with a friend for the first time and as part of the spread the mother inexplicably purchased choco-tacos.
The kid ate them thought they were good and asked the mom to get them again.
The mom realized that they had peanuts and through new tests it turns out he is no longer allergic.
The first thought was choco tacos contain no peanuts. They contain peanuts.
It's not treating like with like, it's attempting to treat with something that has contain the substance but no longer contains it. They add something to water or alcohol then dilute repeatedly until it's just water.
If you believe it works then you should drink a bit of water from the ocean everyday, because so many sewage are poured there that every virus and bacteria of every human illness has been there, and the oceans are so vast that it's been diluted properly!
And that escalated quickly because that theory is completely bonkers and any results of that if anything placebo.. so then we can just say everything here.
Not unless you’ve got a garbage bag. Running is good though but don’t think that heavy breathing is expelling any particulates faster than you inhale them. It can definitely create inflammation which can stimulate growth. Just as micro tears of muscle tissue during exercise increases muscle density and strength.
Run. Just don’t think to yourself you’re undoing anything. Think of it as extending. I wish I had the endurance to join you.
Generally speaking, this is how the immune system works. We get exposed to a thing the first time, our body doesn't know what to do about it, figures it out and future infections with the same thing are typically handled more effectively.
I could tell by the sound of his breathing ten years before he was officially diagnosed that something was wrong I thought his heart due to family history but hindsight is 20/20. I'm the same age now as when he first started sounding bad when he was breathing. His father my grandfather died of emphysema not sure if related since my grandfather was a smoker.
My Dad's doctor said cancer would be easier to treat. Dad made it another ten years past a diagnosis of three years he was given to live but he lived in dread all that time. What really got him in the end was anxiety not so much the disease.