Blocking or Resolving Inflammation: Why the Difference Matters If You Train

Man in a black tank top curling a heavy dumbbell, with weight racks behind him

An anti-inflammatory cuts the signal that produces pain. Resolution is something else: it’s the biological program that closes the inflammatory process in an orderly way and leaves the tissue repaired. Blocking brings relief sooner; resolving finishes the job. And if you train, that difference shapes your adaptations. For decades we treated inflammation as an enemy … Read more