New Paper CONFIRMS Bret Weinstein's Prediction About Aging | DarkHorse 316

A new paper finds that infection tends to lead to greater frailty in older people. This reverses the causality of Terrain Theory of Disease (frailty of the body leads to greater susceptibility of infection), and also provides support for a prediction made by Bret and his co-author Debbie Ciszek in the unpublished, longer version of their reserve capacity paper from 2002.

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Mentioned in this segment:

Ragusa et al 2026: https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gerona/glag043/8497853

Weinstein & Ciszek 2002: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11909679/
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