Inflammaging: aging is mostly about inflammatory health issues—enough to make aging, itself, a disease

ASSOCIATION OF MATURE AMERICAN CITIZENS

As we age we become more susceptible to inflammatory diseases such as Rheumatoid arthritis. Thus a new moniker for the process of growing old has emerged – inflammaging. It makes sense once you consider that the majority of age-related diseases have an inflammatory origin and that aging, itself, is a disease.

The National Institutes of Health [NIH] has weighed…