Low grade, persistent inflammation is identified as one of the biological hallmarks of aging in humans, as well as a risk factor for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer, reported researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in a September study.
“If you have a constant activation of immune cells, this can lead to their exhaustion, which in turn leads to problems when you have an infection,” said Francesco Neri, who headed the research group Epigenetics of Aging at FLI in Jena, Germany.
