{"id":615170,"date":"2026-09-29T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615170\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:12:12","slug":"what-social-media-gets-wrong-about-inflammation-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/615170\/","title":{"rendered":"What social media gets wrong about inflammation : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Should you be worried about your inflammation levels? An immunologist says … it depends.<\/p>\n

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Inflammation is all over our feeds. Influencers claim it’s the reason you’re bloated or fatigued, the source of digestive problems and the cause of more serious illnesses like Alzheimer’s or cardiovascular disease. But how much of that is scientifically backed, and how viable are the solutions you see on social media? Short Wave talks to immunologist Shruti Naik<\/a> to separate the health from the hype.<\/p>\n

Interested in more wellness science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify<\/a> and Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Arundathi Nair and Hannah Chinn. It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez and Lauren Gonzalez. Tyler Jones checked the facts. The audio engineer was Jimmy Keeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should you be worried about your inflammation levels? An immunologist says … it depends. Ventris \/ Science Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-615170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}