cytokines

    More evidence than ever shows that inflammation is not driven by biological age, but rather our lifestyle and environemental factors.  As I’ve talked about extensively on my blog right here, biological aging can be simplified down to a balance between inflammation that accrues over a lifetime vs. your body’s stem cell regeneration. Organ damage as a result of accrued inflammation is something that we associate so strongly with aging that it’s now called “Inflammaging” — depicted in the graphic below.  But while inflammation does drive damage to our organ systems and decreases our body’s ability to repair and […]