The Hidden Switch That Could End Inflammation

How a Small Nerve Could Rewrite the Future of Healing

When I was younger, I thought “healing” was about adding more — more medicine, more treatments, more effort. You attacked the problem head-on and hoped the force was enough to push it out of your life.

But years later, I came to understand that sometimes healing is less about pushing harder… and more about finding the right switch to flip.

That idea came rushing back to me during my conversation with Dr. Kevin Tracey. Here’s a man who has spent decades looking at inflammation — not as a messy, unstoppable wildfire, but as a system with a built-in fire extinguisher. And the control lever for that extinguisher? A nerve most of us never think about.

The discovery was almost accidental. His team wasn’t looking for it — they were testing something entirely different. But what happened next didn’t just change the course of his career… it might change medicine as we know it.

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