Article that discusses cytokines

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Cytokines are bad news for us, as we already have too many if we have suffered autoimmune type symptoms from our breast implants. Reducing cytokines should be our goal. Here's some advice on how:

Eating Food Cooked At HighTemperature Accelerates Aging

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that eating foods cooked at high temperature may increase the rate at which we age. According to this study, the ingestion of high temperature cooked foods causes chronic inflammation and the formation of advanced glycation end products.

Life Extension members have been frequently warned about the dangers of chronic inflammation and glycation. For the benefit of new members, I will succinctly explain these two lethal processes.

As humans age, there is a systemic increase in inflammatory cytokines (destructive cell-signaling chemicals) that contribute to many degenerative diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis is a classic disorder where excess levels of cytokines cause or contribute to the destructive inflammatory syndrome. While inflammatory cytokines can cause agonizing pain, they also disrupt the linings of our arteries, mutate DNA and degrade brain cells. Chronic inflammation is directly involved in diseases as diverse as cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes, aortic valve stenosis, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer's disease and kidney impairment.

In aging people with multiple degenerative diseases, we often find elevated blood levels of C-reactive protein, indicating the presence of an inflammatory disorder. When a cytokine blood profile is conducted in these individuals, we usually discover excess levels of one or more of the pro-inflammatory cytokines. The most common pro-inflammatory cytokines are tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-6, interleukin-1( and/or interleukin-8.

Chronic inflammation inflicts devastating effects, especially as humans grow older. The lethal consequences of inflammation are clearly established in the medical literature.2-14 The good news is that many of the nutrients, hormones and drugs being taken by Life Extension members suppress the production of these deadly inflammatory cytokines. As you will soon read, avoiding foods cooked at very high temperatures can also reduce production of inflammatory cytokines.

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