{"id":6889,"date":"2014-06-01T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2014-06-01T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T04:25:09","slug":"is-occasional-fever-necessary-a-topic-for-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/is-occasional-fever-necessary-a-topic-for-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"IS OCCASIONAL FEVER NECESSARY? (A topic for discussion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>IS OCCASIONAL FEVER NECESSARY? (A topic for discussion\/exploration of the research literature.)<\/p>\n<p>Let us discuss if fever suppression is necessary beyond the potentially lethal, or if it is harmful.<\/p>\n<p>I experienced yesterday the first bout of fever in about a decade. Having read Antifragile, I wondered if there was a real need to lower it (other than the discomfort) and avoided antipyretic drugs. But it raised an interesting question: if we are made to be subjected to occasional episodes of fever, can we live completely without them? We get mild infections all the time and tend to supress fevers&#8230; Now I can understand that the antibacterial benefits of fever can be dealt with with pharma products, but how other benefits, such as thermal variability, or the heating up of the cells?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot ethically report on my own experience (sample of 1) except to intimate that it was not negative (far from it), except for an outpour of bad aphorisms as I was not able to read at all.<\/p>\n<p>Let us go through the medical evidence-based literature, combined with rigorous logic of Jensen&#8217;s inequality and nonlinear responses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152246129163375&amp;id=13012333374\">IS OCCASIONAL FEVER NECESSARY? (A topic for&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IS OCCASIONAL FEVER NECESSARY? (A topic for discussion\/exploration of the research literature.) Let us discuss if fever suppression is necessary beyond the potentially lethal, or if it is harmful. I experienced yesterday the first bout of fever in about a decade. Having read Antifragile, I wondered if there was a real need to lower it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[811],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-fever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6891,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/6891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}