The Role of Inequality in Systemic Chronic Inflammation

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In the U.S., African-American communities have a much higher level of systemic chronic inflammation that co-occasions do, or Latinos. Even then, because there is inequality given by ethnicity and other aspects of this, they are more exposed to systemic chronic inflammation. They're chronically stressed, and that increases the likelihood of developing diseases.

Ian Sample talks to Dr David Furman, an expert on inflammation and ageing at Stanford University. He explains how chronic inflammation is affecting our health and how lifestyle choices can help us fight it. This episode has been updated from an earlier version which stated that dairy is a cause of inflammation. Current scientific evidence suggests dairy has a negligible to marginally positive impact on inflammation in humans.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod