We Oldies Are At Higher Covid Risk

And there are things we can do about it.
It's complicated, but what else
are you doing these days?

 I got behind in my reading Science Magazines from cover to cover. Then I caught up last night. And wowie, zowie! In the 17 July edition, page 256, is:






PERSPECTIVEVIEWPOINT: COVID-19

Aging immunity may exacerbate COVID-19


Science  17 Jul 2020:
Vol. 369, Issue 6501, pp. 256-257
DOI: 10.1126/science.abb0762 
It's kind of a heavy read, lotsa medical and pharmacology, like:  "A key hallmark of severe disease is exuberant inflammation in the respiratory tract of patients (1). Older healthy individuals (60 years and above) exhibit chronic low-grade sterile inflammation (not caused by a pathogen) characterized by high baseline serum concentrations of C reactive protein (CRP) and cytokines."
Got that? We oldies - lots but not all - have "INFLAMMAGING" an awkward word meaning "sterile inflamation in aging," a chronic condition  that causes those rotten exuberant inflammations, but one we can work on.  One of the causes is the natural build-up of senescent cells. Now you may have heard (Yea, read on this blog) about cleaning out the senescent cells with senolytic potions. I mean molecules.
It seems if you clean out senescent cells, you lower your level of inflammaging. I got excited about senolytics in my silly hobby of pursuing "extended health," which none dare call "life extension," unless one is actually sort of silly. 
If you manage to cut down on your inflammaging, you should live a longer, healthier life, and should you catch "the covid," your odds of surviving to do that might improve.
Get out your medical dictionary and read the piece. It will cheer you up, I bet.
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