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I'm wary of trusting new health science from a company trying to sell me the cure to what they just discovered was the _real cause_ of my ills.

This article might be truthful, it might not. But it is absolutely trying to sell you something.

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The article is merely summarizing new recommendations from the American College of Cardiology. You can read the source if you prefer it: https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.08.047

Thank you for linking. The first few paragraphs sound like this is kind of big deal, like print out and read.

I certainly get the skepticism. You might find the JACC article (which is an American College of Cardiology consensus statement) interesting, since the ACC is a neutral party here (and reviewed all the evidence around hs-CRP).

In fairness, the literature has been trending this way for a long time. Well before anyone had figured out a way to profit off of it.

Yes, and the internet has helped quite a bit with this. Instead of a small group of people having access to research through university or hospital publishing networks, everything circulates on the internet for anyone to look at.

My prediction is that this leads to many secular trends in diet and lifestyle. People have called keto a fad, but to me it looks like what happens when basic human endocrinology and how to manipulate it becomes widely known. I don't expect people to go back to high carb/low fat diets as a weight loss intervention, ever, even once the hype has worn off.

hs-CRP is well known as a useful biomarker and it is cheap to test too. If you look at page 13 of the GrimAge 2 paper, you'll see CRP is one of the factors most negatively correlated with their aging clock, in fact basically as strong of a negative impact as smoking. https://escholarship.org/content/qt6k46n006/qt6k46n006.pdf

This new news is about research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

It's definitely not some marketing fad.

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