Lung Inflammation

Chronic or repeated toxin exposure drives a predictable progression from irritation to acute inflammation to chronic inflammation and ultimately fibrosis. The liver and lungs can manage intermittent toxin exposures; it is chronic daily exposure that overwhelms defenses. Chronic inflammation depletes endogenous antioxidants, creating a compounding cycle of greater oxidative damage and reduced ability to neutralise it. Fibrosis represents irreversible scar tissue formation, and once it becomes extensive the damage cannot be reversed. Chronic lung inflammation increases cancer risk independent of smoking because cancer cells preferentially colonise areas of existing inflammation.