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

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

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...

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

Ahhh. Thanks!

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