Dr David Ferman is Director of the 1000 Immunomes Project at Stanford University School of Medicine. He's also an Associate Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. But when we spoke, he was in sunny France. Are you working in France at the moment, or are you on holiday? I don't really know the distinction between the two. For me, that's a year-round vacation, but I work every day.
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
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