Inflammation is an important and necessary part of the body’s healing process. It’s also long been a wellness buzzword used to sell products that do very little to treat it. This week, we look at inflammation through the lens of a new Mother Jones article, “The Great Inflammation Panic,” including an interview with the author, Julia Métraux, in segment two. We’ll also discuss what inflammation is, how wellness influencers weaponize it, and what it represents in the context of Ayurveda.
Show Notes
The Great Inflammation Panic
Chronic Inflammation and Cancer
NIH Autoimmune Diseases
Celiac Disease
Cambridge press release — "Chronic diseases misdiagnosed as psychosomatic can lead to long term damage"
Sloan et al., "I still can't forget those words" — Rheumatology (2025), DOI 10.1093/rheumatology/keaf115
Vasculitis diagnostic-delay data — PubMed
Miranda Fricker interview — Philosophy Bites
Bleuler 1911 coinage — NCBI Bookshelf, The Metamorphosis of Autism
Bleuler's original 1911 text excerpt — Autism History Project
Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor" — full text, NYRB
Louise Hay — Natural Ways to Treat Autoimmune Disease
Gabor Maté, When the Body Says No — critical review, Globe and Mail
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