I had kind of the same thoughts about non-specific inflammation that @Kropotkin reported above. I started a thread just about four years ago to ask about the state of non-specific inflammation in then-current mainstream medicine:
A lot of my exposure to information about non-specific inflammation was through following sports. Specifically, starting maybe 20-25 years ago, some high-profile professional athletes started speaking publically of their anti-inflammatory diets such as NFL stars Tom Brady, Ricky Williams, and Cam Newton; and NBA stars Chris Paul, John Salley, and Kyrie Irving. Early on, reports of these players’ diets were treated as individual eccentricities in the vein of “These guys will try anything for an edge.” Barely above the level of superstition. With hindsight, a lot of that was influential members of the sports media (to include announcers, former players as color commentators, studio hosts, and so forth) simply presenting new ideas in performance to the audience through old, hidebound perspectives.
Fast forward two decades. It looks like the science has not only caught up to these athletes that were on the vanguard, but indeed has trickle down to ordinary folks visiting their PCPs regularly and trying to live healthier.