Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations

on one hand they claim chronic or recurring inflammation is THE big health problem, and if we could it under control everything we'd be much healthier.

on the other hand there are messages like inflammation is good for your body because it keeps it working and e.g. the reason vegetables are so healthy is because they are basically indigestible and therefore cause mild inflammation, ergo good.

so what is it now? or are there different kinds of inflammation?

> on the other hand there are messages like inflammation is good for your body because it keeps it working

There's no contradiction here. The first one is chronic, it's long term.

The second one is acute, it's short term, to heal or to deal with invaders.

Also, as the comment below mine points out, even this split is a massive simplification. There's many different types of inflammation, some good, some required for survival, and some which can do damage over time if they never get shut off.

I mean, we name viruses & bacterias by their category/shape/etc, so shouldn't we do something similar to inflammation? eg. blue, vege-inflammation, red inflammation, pink-diamond-shaped inflammation inflammation-from-burn, etc?