Keeping the peace in the Festival of Life is fraught with its own danger. Inflammation is not fun for the person experiencing disease, and it can put us at risk. The immune response can be accompanied by fatigue, fever, chills, and aches and pains. In millions of people, excessive immune response is its own chronic disease. This is why the immune system, all things being equal, is designed foremost to keep the peace. Excessive force ends badly. The skirmish hurts, the festival is interrupted, the party gripped by anxiety. Life’s balance has been upset.
