A certain amount of inflammatory response is needed to get rid of the pathogens and to help the the body's immune system perform its function, but if you produce too many inflammatory components, it can be damaging to surrounding tissues. It can cause autoimmune diseases. It can cause chronic diseases.

Simin Meydani

Dr. Simin Nikbin Meydani, D.V.M., Ph.D., is an Iranian-American Nutrition Scientist, Professor and the currently the Vice Provost of Research at Tufts University. She is the lab director of the Nutrition and Immunology Lab at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (HNRCA), Professor of Nutrition and Immunology at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Tufts Sackler Graduate Program in Immunology.

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