Share this articleDoiCopy to clipboardCite this articleGross ways to live long: Parasitic worms as an anti-inflammaging therapy?eLife 10:e65180.Copy to clipboardEvolutionary medicine argues that disease can arise because modern conditions do not match those in which we evolved. For example, a decline in exposure to commensal microbes and gastrointestinal helminths in developed countries has been linked to increased prevalence of allergic and autoimmune inflammatory disorders (the hygiene hypothesis). Accordingly, probiotic therapies that restore ‘old friend’ microbes and helminths have been...…Share this articleDoiCopy to clipboardCite this articleGross ways to live long: Parasitic worms as an anti-inflammaging therapy?eLife 10:e65180.Copy to clipboardEvolutionary medicine argues that disease can arise because modern conditions do not match those in which we evolved. For example, a decline in exposure to commensal microbes and gastrointestinal helminths in developed countries has been linked to increased prevalence of allergic and autoimmune inflammatory disorders (the hygiene hypothesis). Accordingly, probiotic therapies that restore ‘old friend’ microbes and helminths have been...WW…