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mrwaffle | 4 years ago

hi, i'm a just stupid waffle. can someone give me the TLDR of this [nearly] impossible to understand piece of writing?

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pazimzadeh|4 years ago

> We conclude that inflammation is an important malleable driver of ageing up to extreme old age in humans

mattowen_uk|4 years ago

From what I understand, is that if your body is quite good at fighting infection (and thus creates inflammation) you'll live longer.

Seems a bit obvious to me, but what do I know? I'm not an academic scientist...

jobigoud|4 years ago

It's the other way around. Their finding is that lower levels of inflammation correlates with survival, capability and cognition in centenarians.