Aging: Chronic inflammation is associated with industrialized lifestyles

i mean, we inhale toxic fumes, drink lead, eat hormones/antibiotics/pesticides/nitrates, not to mention bucketloads of refined sugar, and we have microplastics in our balls

is it really surprising that our bodies start attacking themselves after decades of this, while the same doesn't happen to populations that aren't perpetually exposed to all that garbage?

As part of the industrialized lifestyles, could it be the consumption of industrialized foods? Our bodies likely cannot deal with the externalities of industrial farming. Ultraprocessed foods such as industrially refined oils are entirely novel.

It doesn't seem like such a stretch that human bodies then respond with inflammation to try to remove the unfamiliar, to me.

These sorts of stories always make me wonder how much of our health is due to the fact that most simply don't work their ass off anymore. Read a great article in a 90's magazine where they proposed naming a new disease caused by sitting on our asses all the time. Fuck me. Most Westerners are fat, most can't move much and 30-somethings are bitching about back and knee pain. I'm 54, have emphysema, and my wife and small children can't physically keep up with me. They're fit to stroke out after walking a single mile.

The idea was that the human body evolved to work, and work fucking hard and long. Working my ass off at Lowe's solved 3 health issues for me. Caused 1 in my hands, but how much of that was due to working in an office for 20+ years?

Another book I read 30+ years ago was about our diet. They were clearly stumping for a vegan diet, vegetarian at worst. The upshot was that so many of Western health issues were caused by over-eating animal products. In one story, and African king came down with appendicitis and his people were scared shitless, because the disease was unknown in thier grain-staple culture. One thing that stuck with me was how Vietnamese cadavers showed far less plaque buildup in their arteries vs. American cadavers. (Same age, 19, Vietnam era data.)

Anyway, working hard and mostly eating plants can't really hurt, can it?