Rhonda Patrick· PhD
So what, really. [Rhonda] Yeah. So you had brought up this idea a little earlier of kind of at least I think it's somewhat of an antagonistic pleiotropy, when you're talking about for example the immune system. You know, it's sort of, you want an active immune system because you want to survive through reproduction, you want to not die from some bad nasty infection, but also, this inflammatory process as you get older can accelerate aging. [Aubrey]: Yup. So you got to be very careful with antagonistic pleiotropy. It's a overused term. I'm not even sure that one should call the inflammatory response an example of antagonistic pleiotropy. Because remember, the situation in an older individual includes the fact that the