[mrwaffle]

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

[pazimzadeh]

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

[mattowen_uk]

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]

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

[mrwaffle]

this is the ideal reply, original waffle poster was hoping for, thank you!

[mattowen_uk]

Ahhh. Thanks!