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The more inflammatory factors, the quicker death comes
A diet containing high amounts of natural inflammatory inhibitors - such as B vitamins, ginger, magnesium and omega-3 fatty acids - delays aging and reduces your chance of developing cancer, we wrote recently. But the positive effect of this kind of diet may be even greater than we realised, according to a molecular epidemiological study that Polish researchers at the Mossakowski Medical Research Centre published in Immunity & Ageing.
Study
CRP and interleukine-6 are inflammatory proteins. They help rid the body of disease pathogens and damaged tissues, but in too high quantities they increase the chance of chronic diseases and speed up the aging process. A sedentary lifestyle and bad diet increase the body's production of inflammatory proteins.
The researchers divided the participants into two groups. One group was entitled the 'successfully aging subgroup'. These were people who had no cancer, cardiovascular disease or diabetes, and who were in good mental condition and had no problems with normal everyday activities. The other group was called the 'subgroup of individuals who suffered from aging-related diseases'.
Results
The Poles divided the study participants into three equal-sized groups [called tertiles] according to the amount of CRP in their blood. They divided the participants into four equal-sized groups [quartiles] according to the concentration of interleukine-6 in their blood. They then recorded how many participants died over a subsequent period of five years.
The chance of dying was greater the higher the blood concentrations of CRP [first figure below] and interleukine-6 [second figure] in both the super agers [left-hand graphs in figures below] and the other group [right-hand graphs].
The figure below on the left shows the relationship between the likelihood of dying [mortality risk] and the concentration of CRP; the figure below on the right shows the relationship between the likelihood of dying and the concentration of interleukine-6.
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