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Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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It is rapidly becoming clear that inflammation drives many processes of disease and ageing. Many people are turning to anti-inflammatory diets rich in fruits like blueberries, fish with Omega Acids and turmeric. For example, there are many yoga practitioners in India who have extreme old age and great health that people worldwide can all benefit from listening to, like Baba Ramdev.

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Anecdote, but this may explain why I feel so much healthier when I'm fasting regularly. Turns out, if you stop putting everything but water/salt in your body, there's not much left that causes inflammation.

Same here. It's the closest thing to an actual wonder drug i have ever come across. My skin clears up, brainfog disappears, the white in my eyes get brighter, etc. After reading a bit i have come to the same conclusion - if your diet is already extremely clean / bland, maybe you won't get the same effect, but for most people that eats lots of different foods, processed stuff, fast food, alcohol, harsh additives, frie…

Come on, don't use the word clean with regards to diet. It's a bs and meaningless word that specifies nothing. Is it no sugar, no salt, no meat, no gc organisms, no alcohol no processed, low carb, high carb? Clean is a word that suggests Instagram influencers. Clean does not mean bland or not bland, whole foods or not. It's a meaningless word like good, healthy, natural.

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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It's always strange to me how certain studies seem to gain so many upvotes on hackernews....a few thoughts: 1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anything from this? 2. The journal is EBioMedicine, which is not nothing but not exactly pre-eminent either. 3. This seems like just a common sense conclusion: "In Cox proportional hazard m…

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Was in a massive Sjogrens flare. Stopped eating for a month. Collapsing aside, my inflammation was fixed. Did a month on sweet potatoes. Very boring but same result.

Why sweet potatoes?

Not the OP, but I'm going to guess that it's because sweet potatoes have pretty high nutritional content such that you can survive by only eating them for some time without developing deficiencies.

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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post #8

Anecdote, but this may explain why I feel so much healthier when I'm fasting regularly. Turns out, if you stop putting everything but water/salt in your body, there's not much left that causes inflammation.

Same here. It's the closest thing to an actual wonder drug i have ever come across. My skin clears up, brainfog disappears, the white in my eyes get brighter, etc. After reading a bit i have come to the same conclusion - if your diet is already extremely clean / bland, maybe you won't get the same effect, but for most people that eats lots of different foods, processed stuff, fast food, alcohol, harsh additives, frie…

If I could make it past the first 24 hours of fasting I could probably go further, but I get really bad headaches when fasting and usually give up somewhere close to 24 hours. I hear that if I were to push through for a few more hours that the headache would clear up, but haven't been able to do that yet.

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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Anecdote, but this may explain why I feel so much healthier when I'm fasting regularly. Turns out, if you stop putting everything but water/salt in your body, there's not much left that causes inflammation.

My experience with a 3 day fast was that for the first day it was no problem. I can generally ignore hunger pretty easily. But days 2 and 3 were just a brutal lack of energy. I have never felt so depleted as when I was finishing my 3-day fast. Other than that, I didn't really experience any positive benefits.

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

#37

Anecdote, but this may explain why I feel so much healthier when I'm fasting regularly. Turns out, if you stop putting everything but water/salt in your body, there's not much left that causes inflammation.

Was in a massive Sjogrens flare. Stopped eating for a month. Collapsing aside, my inflammation was fixed. Did a month on sweet potatoes. Very boring but same result.

Not the first time I read about sweet potatoes on HN. Could you describe a little more on that front, eg what was your breakfast/lunch/dinner like during that month?

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let's not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness. Relevant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476783/#s2titl...

Curious – are there legitimate ways to measure stress?

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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post #14

Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let's not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness. Relevant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476783/#s2titl...

Take aspirin daily forever, if your stomach hurts, stop. Start again.

Re: Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

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post #14

Most people talk food when inflammation is mentioned. But let's not forget, arguably, an even bigger contributor: stress - mental or physical, say via a chronic illness. Relevant: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5476783/#s2titl...

CBD is great at helping alleviate inflammation in most people.
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