Why longevity researchers treat lifestyle inflammation as foundational, not optional.
This page is general education, not a diagnosis. If you're dealing with persistent or severe symptoms, please see a doctor — lifestyle tracking can be a useful complement to medical care, never a substitute for it.
Researchers use the term "inflammaging" to describe a tendency for baseline chronic inflammation to rise gradually with age, which some longevity researchers study as a contributing factor in multiple age-related conditions rather than a single disease itself.
The same lifestyle factors linked to lower inflammatory load generally — diet quality, sleep, exercise, stress management — are also central themes in longevity research, which is part of why researchers like Peter Attia and Bryan Johnson (see our research library) treat them as foundational rather than optional.
THE FAD can help you notice day-to-day and week-to-week lifestyle patterns relevant to this research. It cannot measure your biological age, predict your longevity, or substitute for the kind of comprehensive biomarker testing longevity-focused clinics use.