Shrug family this week on Barbell Shrug Physiology Friday is back and today we're going to be taking the deep dive into inflammation.

Not just the negative side effects or the sludge in the physiological system of your body that is holding you back from achieving the health or performance goals,

but also the positive side of inflammation. When it comes to muscle building,

there's many physiological reasons, immune responses to inflammation, some positive, some negative.

We're going to take the deep dive into all of it today on this episode of Barbell Strug.

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Friends, let's get into the show.

Welcome to Barb Al Shrug.

I'm Anders Warner, Doug Larson, Coach Travis Mashed, Dan Garner, back in the house, buddy.

This is so exciting.

We're going to talk about inflammation today.

And I feel like if there's a single word that has been used in more marketing campaigns than anything else in the history of fitness and nutrition. It's the word inflammation,

which means there's endless confusion and a whole lot of people that kind of know what they're talking

about. And we're going to set the record straight today. So let's kick it off. What is inflammation?

All right. Talk about what is inflammation.

First off, in terms of marketing campaigns, detox says, hold my beer.

It may have been in more marketing campaigns. That's true.

I totally forgot about the detox.

Detox is all over the place.

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