Reflecting on the lesson
Choose one concept in our lesson today, give a brief explanation about the concept and cite how would you apply this learning in your everyday life.
The concept that I would like to emphasize is the inflammation of the body, or the response of the body to trauma or damaged cells. As discussed, this is the body’s way of reacting to a sudden change or damage to our body, as it sends its immune cells as well as other components to surround the affected area and start the process of removing foreign material, as well as jump-start the repairing/replacing stage of the tissue.
If this response were not to happen or exist, our body would just take trauma and injuries repeatedly without any real way of repairing itself, thus after some time we may contract an infection, fall into great illness, or worse it could cause death if the body can no longer bare the effects of inflammation not being there.
It is our response to irritation or damage to our tissues of the body, thus it is up to us to make a change in our lifestyles to avoid this. Although the inflammation process is a very helpful process of the body, it is not seen as a positive thing when it happens repeatedly and at an unhealthy rate, as it can be damaging to the body especially if it lasts for longer than it should be. So knowing this, we need to be able to avoid situations that we know could cause damage to our body in any way, may it be an injury or an infection, we need to avoid these things to avoid battering our body.