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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why do we take anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen), when that is our body's healing response?

It just doesn't make sense that people take these drugs - it seems counter-intuitive to fight your body's natural response to damage, and fighting this would only prolong the healing process.

So why are they prescribed or recommended as beneficial?

Thanks in advance smart people.
gpt
Inflammation actually slows the healing process, but usually allows moderate usage of the injured limb for the duration. As early humans couldn't just lay up on the couch for a week, it was beneficial for them to be 75% mobile for a month instead. 

Now, we can take that week at 0% and be done with it.