Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

by Casey Means

A mighty immune cell trying to support a cell that is ailing and threatened from its mitochondrial dysfunction is rendered completely impotent. The immune cell cannot halt the damaging factors and the lack of resources resulting from the unnatural environment of our modern industrial world. An immune cell can’t stop you from drinking a soda, filter your water, turn off the stress-inducing notifications on your phone, prevent you from eating hormone-disrupting pesticides and microplastics, or get you to go to sleep earlier. So the immune cell will use the tools at its disposal: it will recruit more immune cells, send out more inflammatory signals, and just keep fighting until things resolve. But the problems don’t resolve, because the damaging environmental inputs never resolve. This is the root of chronic inflammation.