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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
So this other dude says lungs can’t self-repair and you agree.
He says this virus causes damage to the lungs so I ask how they’re sure of that. You ask me how they’d know if it was permanent after only 2-3 months.
If the lungs can’t repair themselves as you say then any damage they receive would be permanent, no?
Why don’t you two just provide some links to legitimate scientific articles? You’re just a couple jamokes on a message board. Why would I take anything you’re saying at face value?
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your conflating different diseases and issues. Please see my earlier post on how the lungs get oxygen into the body.
Longer term smoking can cause damage to those alveoli or not. Depends on how much and how long you smoked.
When you smoke you basically burn off the cilia. These cilia are what help you remove phlegm from your lungs. I have a 13 pack year history of smoking. When I quit, the cilia grew back and I didn’t damage the avolei. So under your reference point, the lungs did self heal.
But, you damage the alveoli. That’s it. They are forever damaged.