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Contrary to what it says in any source you look at,

that inflammation is the immune system's first response to infection or injury,

it is really only a first response to infection.

Inflammation does the body no good whatsoever in the case of injury.

And if you have enough glycine, it won't happen.

And you will feel better for it and

live better for it. Every element of modernity in terms of diet has worked against health because

it's worked toward lowering the naturally high levels of glycine that we should have with a really

healthy diet. There's an M1 macrophage and an M2 macrophage. And the M2 is quiesin. It will go

around and phagocetize like a little army of amoebas. It will clean up dead cells and cell debris,

but it will not trigger this secretion of poisons designed to kill whatever it is that got into

you. That won't happen unless it's activated to M1. M1 is starting to shoot the place up with all these

poisons. Unless there is a bad actor present, then they will do their inflammation thing and try to

clear the infection. But if there is no infection, why are they going to do that? Glycine, we need more

than we're getting. We cut the muscle meat off the bone. We throw the bones in the trash instead of in the soup.

Therefore, as part of a really healthy optimal diet, we need to take a supplement of glycine.

I believe everyone needs it for health and general sense of well-being.

Joel, starting back in 2008, you began supplementing with 10 grams of glycine a day.

Share with me the backstory that led to that experiment.

Well, okay.

Well, the backstory is basically research that I was doing with a private research foundation.

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