Inflammation accelerates the aging process and is a key overlapping factor between brain aging and general aging.

“And inflammation is a term that's used, which is kind of like the activation of the immune system is accelerating the aging process, and it's known as inflammation. There's neuroinflammation, and there's been these seven pillars of aging, where you look at all these physiological processes that are happening, like genomic instability is one, protein misfolding is another, and there's also this neuroinflammation. The only thing that was really overlapping between brain aging and just aging itself was the inflammation.”