<story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sparrc</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s always strange to me how certain studies seem to gain so many upvotes on hackernews....a few thoughts:&lt;p&gt;1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anything from this?&lt;p&gt;2. The journal is EBioMedicine, which is not nothing but not exactly pre-eminent either.&lt;p&gt;3. This seems like just a common sense conclusion: &amp;quot;In Cox proportional hazard models, inflammation predicted all-cause mortality&amp;quot;. So...people who die have inflammation? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that be expected that people who are dieing are likely experiencing significant inflammation of at least one organ of their body?&lt;p&gt;4. In short, the conclusion of this paper seems like essentially &amp;quot;people who are dying are likely to die&amp;quot;. Am I missing something here?</text></comment>
<story><title>Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age</title><url>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26629551/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TimSchumann</author><text>Anecdote, but this may explain why I feel so much healthier when I&amp;#x27;m fasting regularly.&lt;p&gt;Turns out, if you stop putting everything but water&amp;#x2F;salt in your body, there&amp;#x27;s not much left that causes inflammation.</text></comment>