when your muscles swell and get inflamed from training, its now proven the body's response is not only its own anti-inflams, but localised IGF-1 can be found localised in that tissue.
turning off that body response is hurting the natural process.
If your on gear, i doesn't matter, everything is upregulated and taken care of, if your natural however, its very important what you put in your mouth and how you recover.
Just like sleep, you can't take a sleeping pill and expect to get the recovery you do from a natural sleep. I feel the same way about muscle soreness.
And if its joint pain, you need to listen to your body, its trying to tell you something!