Although I agree with you on the inflammatory response being vital for protection, I have to disagree that it is the best protection of the body. Physical and biochemical barriers protect the body without producing harmful effects. Inflammation is activated after the first protection barrier has been penetrated and begins the destructive cascade. As you said inflammation can be, “activated by virtually any injury”, inflammation can protect the body, but it can also preserve an injury that has not occurred and “cause more harm to the body in cases of allergy, autoimmunity, and during infections in tissues with poor regenerative capacity, such as the heart” (Boundless, 2016, para. 1).
