The Role of Sleep Hygiene and Meditation in Managing Chronic Inflammation

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Mastering sleep hygiene includes decreasing exposure to electrical light at night to prepare the body for sleep.
Meditation prior to sleep can lower systemic chronic inflammation and improve sleep quality.
Knowledge about preventing chronic inflammation is not yet fully embraced by doctors and health systems.
There is typically a lag of 15 to 20 years from discovery in academia to public dissemination.
The National Inflammaging Institute aims to disseminate knowledge about chronic inflammation.

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