{"id":6661,"date":"2025-07-01T04:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:49:22","slug":"is-inflammaging-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=6661","title":{"rendered":"Is \u201cinflammaging\u201d inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43587-025-00888-0\">recent study in Nature Aging<\/a> as summarized in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/30\/well\/live\/aging-inflammation-lifespan-environment.html\">New York Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Inflammation is a natural immune response that protects the body from injury or infection. Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflammation \u2014 also known as \u201cinflammaging\u201d \u2014 is a universal hallmark of getting older. But this new data raises the question of whether inflammation is directly linked to aging at all, or if it\u2019s linked to a person\u2019s lifestyle or environment instead.<br \/>The study, which was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43587-025-00888-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published today,<\/a>\u00a0found that people in two nonindustrialized areas experienced a different kind of inflammation throughout their lives than more urban people \u2014 likely tied to infections from bacteria, viruses and parasites rather than the precursors of chronic disease. Their inflammation also didn\u2019t appear to increase with age. <\/p>\n<p>The studies looked at four distinct populations in Italy, Singapore, Bolivia and Malaysia with the latter two populations being comprised of individuals in nonindustrialized areas.  What is the cause of these differences?  Pollution? Diet? Sedentary lifestyle?  More research is needed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a recent study in Nature Aging as summarized in the New York Times: Inflammation is a natural immune response that protects the body from injury or infection. Scientists have long believed that long-term, low-grade inflammation \u2014 also known as \u201cinflammaging\u201d \u2014 is a universal hallmark of getting older. But this new data raises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}