Dr. Robert Whitfield describes how the body sometimes heals too aggressively, forming calcium deposits or bone where it shouldn't. He compares it to heterotopic ossification after surgery, where the repair mechanism goes haywire and creates extra bone that causes problems.
It is an interesting phenomenon, and I would say the issue is your body has this reaction, and I see it anecdotally, which, you know, it's not been studied. I see it more often with texture that you get more of a response of this kind of little eggshell or calcium deposits. And I don't know why. Um, it's just one of those things that it's super, um, frustrating. Like, there's this concept in surgery that we see when people get like orthopedic surgery, like bone surgery, and it's called heterotopic ossification. But like, the bone heals, but it heals too well. I don't know what's driving it. But it's like your body's trying to— I don't want to say heal too well in this instance, but it's overreacting to the situation. It's like an out-of-balance response. And I guess for me personally, I'm fascinated by always how your body is always trying to take care of you and how it's trying to surveil the situation and respond to the situations depending on what they are.
