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The Inflammation Theory of Disease

Stuff You Should Know

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Shifting work can disrupt your sleep, all the artificial light in our modern worlds. Your circadian rhythm is so intimately tied to your immune system that if it gets out of whack, your immune system gets out of wack real quick. Aging also, I mean, we talked about it earlier. We also talked about in the free radicals theory of aging episode,. But one of the other ways that, um, aging can create chronic inflammation is something called immunosinescence where your immune system just stops functioning properly.

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