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It’s no secret that with aging comes inflammation—and the subsequent heightened risk of a whole bunch of health conditions. There’s even a word for the low-grade, chronic inflammation that develops as we get on in years: “inflammaging.”
Still, there’s no set amount of inflammation that comes with age. Some people will develop more of it, and more disease, than others.
“People of the same chronological age can have very different inflammatory and metabolic profiles. This suggests that chronological age alone does not capture the biological processes underlying healthy or unhealthy aging,” says Carsten Eriksen, Ph.D., researcher in the…
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