Following that your body in theory is better equipped to cope with future exercise/movement stresses, therefore attributable to reduced inflammation long term.
This is why there is somewhat of a debate in the exercise community around the true benefit of ice baths, hot/cold plunges, compression leggings etc. Whilst they feel good, these work to try to reduce inflammation, which is not necessarily what we want after exercise. There is a time and a place for reducing inflammation.
I treat the pain / inflammation from 'good' causes as a well-earned reward (if God exists, this is one of its greatest practical jokes).
Treating inflammation from 'bad' causes (outside of genetic disposition) is probably a bad thing in that it's treating symptoms, not trying to find the cause, and in fact actively supressing the ability find the cause.
Edit: added 'Treating' in front of the last sentence so it makes sense.
For the average person and the average fever, people don't really need to take fever suppressants but they do often allow people to go back to work sooner.
Or in case of infection move temperature further away from optimal one for breeding foreign bacteria/viruses, at that scale and numbers its statistics game so any advantage, even by just raising overall temperature is acceptable.
The problem is our bodies sometimes go haywire and don't regulate properly.
My comment just above doesn't describe it as a cause, but a symptom, in this case muscular damage from exercise. In your case, it was due to S1 L5 discs pulling on each other during exercise, which is different.
But nonetheless, inflammation brought upon as a symptom of something else. Which goes for almost everything else in the body when inflammation arises.
I'm pretty sure most asthmatics would disagree.
Which is pretty odd, no?
There is a lot we don’t know about asthma.
Exercise and stress reduction do seem to help, but also not in obvious ways.
Dilating the muscles? Dilation would normally be something that happens to holes (meaning they get larger); muscles can only tense and relax.
And do you know what bronchioles and alveoli are? If not, they’re what start closing up.
Are you saying that the muscles that dilate the hole are themselves "dilating" when they tense, while the muscles that contract the hole are not "dilating" when they tense?
Pretty much all of the bodies sphincters and regulated ‘pipes’ (including circulatory, GI, respiratory) either constrict (muscles tense) or dilate (muscles relax). Often there is minimal/no counter acting structure except perhaps for some ligaments/support structure, and the ‘opening’ force is provided by another means.
Confusingly, the optical pupils are the other way around - the pupillary dilator muscles have to contract to dilate the pupil. They are not the common case.
Albuterol acts directly on bronchial smooth muscle forcing it to relax (and also decreasing any immediate stress response in those cells). Which allows the alveolar duct to dilate during respiration.
I’m not aware of any significant muscular structure that actually would pull open the alveolar ducts - the force to inflate them comes from air inflating the lungs against the slight vacuum in the pleural breathing spaces from the action of the diaphragm and accessory breathing muscles.
The characteristic wheezing of asthma is due to the alveolar ducts (and bronchial in bad cases) muscles contracting excessively, constricting the airway and making it impossible to get adequate tidal volume. Sometimes it’s excessive due to the presence of mucus that isn’t being taken into account, other times even without it.
Counterintuitively, the difficulty breathing is generally because the air already inhaled cannot escape easily enough to allow room for more air. The wheezing is strongest on exhalation, and when responding to calls in the past, I’ve personally heard so bad it was clearly audible through multiple interior walls and the exterior wall - and outside the building. With an ambulance and fire truck running outside.
That is for adults who have stronger muscles. Pediatric patients are usually much more subtle.
Inadequate respiratory tidal volume is of course an immediate life threatening emergency, and very high on the ‘kills ya faster’ list. Time wise, potentially similar to hypovolemic shock or cardiac arrest.
It seems saying the ‘muscle dilates’, while not being technically exacting, isn’t misleading in this situation.
> Confusingly, the optical pupils are the other way around
There is no muscular action involved in constricting the pupil?
My understanding is based on what I was taught about how muscles work - specifically, that they can be in one of two behavioral states:
1. The muscle is trying to tense.
2. The muscle is not trying to tense.
Along with a continuum of physical states:
A. The muscle is fully contracted.
B. The muscle is fully extended.
As far as I was taught, muscles cannot extend themselves; some external force, most commonly another muscle, needs to draw them away from their (perhaps partially) tensed state. (And in the case of a cramp, this process fails because the muscle is still actively tensing.) Hence, as you just noted, the opening of the alveolar ducts is driven by tensing in the diaphragm. Or, when food passes from the esophagus into the stomach, what's happening is that muscles in the esophagus are tensing above the food to force it downward.
> Albuterol acts directly on bronchial smooth muscle forcing it to relax
So the immediate question prompted by my model here would be "does albuterol force the muscle to lengthen [a change in the physical state of the muscle], or does it stop the muscle from resisting as other processes lengthen it? [A change in the behavioral state.]"
> Ah, is your objection to the mixed terms, or to the intent of the poster? Or not an objection and a curious question? It can be hard to tell here.
My objection is to the fact that if you tell me a muscle is dilating, I have no idea what that means. Dilation isn't a concept that applies to muscles, whether in a direct or a metaphorical sense. Muscles, to the best of my knowledge, do not have any behaviors that it would make sense to describe as "dilating". Dilation refers to a hole getting larger, while muscles are unlike a hole in that they exist and occupy space, and they can't get larger, only smaller.
I’m just pointing out that while it’s not technically correct, you can figure out what they mean if you look at the actual details.
The iris does have a sphincter and dilator muscle, unlike most of these because unlike most there is no common counter pressure to expand them. Well, no safe one anyway.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_dilator_muscle]
For examples of ‘normal’ sphincters and controlled tubes in the body, for instance, the rectal sphincter vs feces (propelled via the smooth muscle in the colon or pressurized in various ways), esophageal sphincter vs various ways stuff gets pushed or propelled through it, blood pressure against the arterial smooth muscles, air pressure via the esophagus into the lungs vs the negative pressure pleural space, the small and large intestine, etc.
If they relax, they no longer resist those forces, and hence the sphincter or tube will dilate.
This is also why various things tend suddenly leak out upon death. No ennervation, no tensing, sphincter dilates. At least until rigor mortis sets in.
Albuterol forces smooth muscle to no longer tense - aka relax. So any sphincter, tube, or duct that muscle controls will dilate if there is any force present, which there generally is - or the patient is already dead.
The reason humans live to be grandparents is the grandparents' role is to take care of the grandkids while the parents work.
This is also in the same landscape as hormesis (controverial or not).
15 minutes of low effort legwork might stimulate cartilage cell growth. But what's to say that an hour or so of low effort legwork (biking) isn't beneficial to the bodies endurance systems. Both of which the body would recover from and go back to optimal function.
Even hard workouts have their place in developing a healthy body, of which your body returns to optimal function through the bodies recovery processes.
A lot of people have a really broken, superficial understanding of these topics and assume that all these processes and chemicals in our body are bad and must be reduced as much as possible, but they play important roles in the body.
Many people are surprised to learn that taking a lot of antioxidants before working out actually reduces the effectiveness of exercise. Influencers have peddled this idea that oxidation is bad and antioxidants are good for so long that people think it’s a number they just need to push downward as much as possible with as many supplements as they can take.
If you walk everywhere every day, do most of your daily chores by hand, and don't sit in an office all day, you are likely getting plenty of exercise even if you never touch a set of weights or treadmill.
Monks traditionally and currently do hard manual labour. They may work on a garden, farm, distilling equipment, artisanal endeavours such as carpentry. Monks (and nuns as well) have to do all the work in a monastery, which includes the daily chores, the cooking and cleaning. What did you expect, that they have servants to do that for them?
Plus, most healthy religious communities believe in real recreation on days of rest, and so they engage in athletics and sports as well. It's actually absurd to conceive of monks who are sedentary or lazy, no matter what the time period or region they may occupy.
"Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not."
A classic example of something like it, is during WW I the British saw a lot of airplanes were coming back with fuselage damage. So they started reinforcing the fuselage. Why this is a logical mistake is that these were the surviving airplanes.
I'll raise you: if you exercise regularly you'll be able to exercise more in the future and stay healthier.
That reminds me of my father (currently 76) who got a large dog. Now he walks it (or the dog walks him) for miles twice per day and his doc is extatic because that got rid of quite a few of his old age problems.
I know a guy who almost became a zen monk. By march he writes the allotted number of scientific papers for the year (he works for a govt lab). He's the editor of the top journal in his field.
Meanwhile, he's self taught himself philosophy and teaches it (pro bono?) at a University you've heard of.
He also reads >150 books / year
He writes the list down and at the end of every year he sends it to me (I asked him to). It ain't light reading.
Cal State Humboldt?