Is Inflammation Pseudoscience? Top Stanford Doc Shares The REAL Research + What You Should Do Today

I received a podcast review that basically said because a guest talked about chronic inflammation it was a "MAHA podcast." So I decided to go straight to one of the top inflammation researchers in the world and ask him directly: is chronic inflammation actually real, or is it pseudoscience?

My guest is Dr. David Furman, the Director of Stanford Medicine's 1000 Immunomes Project (the largest longitudinal study on aging and the immune system in the world) and an Associate Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and his answer might surprise you. We play a game of Myth or Fact and bust some of the biggest inflammation claims all over the internet, from gluten and dairy to seed oils, and microplastics. We also get into how to actually test whether you're inflamed, the surprising link between chronic stress, depression, and your immune system, why your coffee habit might be doing you a favor, and exactly what to do about all of it if you have no money to spend.

🎧 What you’ll learn:

• What the best anti-inflammatory tools and habits are

• Why 80% of people over 40 are inflamed

• The surprising foods that drive inflammation

• The inflammation-stress and inflammation-depression connection

• One free thing you can do tonight to start lowering inflammation immediately

Studies mentioned in this episode:

• iAge / Thousand Immunomes Project (inflammatory aging clock, CXCL9 biomarker): Nature Aging paper via PMC / PubMed

• Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span (Nature Medicine, 2019 — the paper linking inflammaging to major diseases)

• NLRC4 inflammasome / caffeine study (why coffee drinkers had less inflammation): Nature Medicine, 2017

• Chronic stress / caregiver glucocorticoid resistance (the cancer-caregiver study): Miller, Chen & Cole, PNAS 2012

• 2014 depression inflammation study: Mostafavi et al., Molecular Psychiatry 2014

• Kitavans tribe free from stroke and heart disease study: PubMed / PubMed

For more from Dr. David Furman:

• https://davidfurman.com/

• https://www.buckinstitute.org/

• https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/david-furman

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