Laya’s Reviews > Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice > Status Update

Nice chapter on flow of economy and blood

“The recognition that immunity is a process of negotiation and damage management, rather than a complicated kind of passport control at the border of self and other, has profound implications. Illness is not simply caused by a foreign entity: it is the body’s response to damage [external or internal]. Humans are not little states with their own border patrol but assemblies in a web of life.”

“The inflammatory diseases we are seeing today are not the cause of the body’s dysfunctional reactions. They are the body’s correct responses to a pathological world. To understand what’s driving inflammation, we must account for the things our bodies have been exposed to, in the places where our lives have been circumscribed. And to offer a treatment, we must show how we can escape.”

"The recognition that immunity is a process of negotiation and damage management, rather than a complicated kind of passport control at the border of self and other, has profound implications."

"Rather than stamping everything foreign as automatically bad, the immune system behaves more subtly, embracing a truth that many politicians don’t: most foreigners are friends, not foes."

Already regretting this as audiobook. Too many good references I can't note or annotate dammit