Inflammation, Aging, & How to Put Out the Fires Your Body Keeps Setting | David Furman, PhD
Inflammation, Aging, & How to Put Out the Fires Your Body Keeps Setting | David Furman, PhD  
Podcast: Good Life Project
Published On: Mon Oct 19 2026
Description: Every year you get your blood drawn, and someone circles a number that supposedly tells you your inflammation level. Turns out that number is barely more accurate than a coin flip. But, knowing how chronically inflamed you are is critical in preventing disease and slowing the age clock.David Furman directs the Stanford 1000 Immunomes Project and runs the Bioinformatics and Data Science Core at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, where he's spent over fifteen years studying how inflammation drives the diseases most of us start worrying about in our forties and fifties: heart disease, dementia, diabetes, cancer. He's the researcher behind the first published clock that can predict frailty seven years before it shows up, and along the way he's worked with NASA and SpaceX.What you'll explore in this conversation:Why the inflammation test your doctor already runs is barely more accurate than flipping a coin, and what David built to replace itThe everyday object sitting in a lot of living rooms right now that's silently raising one of the 7 key drivers of inflammatory agingHow chronic stress can disable the anti-inflammatory drugs meant to fight itThe one daily habit David says adds roughly fifteen years to your healthspan, and it isn't the kind of exercise you'd expectWhat David actually eats, and avoids, to keep his own inflammation in checkIf you've ever wondered what's actually happening beneath the surface as you age, this conversation gives you a real way to find out, and a real place to start.You can find David at: Website | LinkedIn | Episode TranscriptCheck out our sponsors and resources: Visit Our Sponsor Page Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.