UAE, July 28 -- Consider a woman in her late forties. She eats well, takes her supplements, walks most mornings - by every measure, she does everything right. Yet lately her body has been sending strange messages: nights that refuse to hold sleep, aches that wander with no clear cause, a vitality that has quietly dimmed. Her medical assessments reveal nothing that explains the symptoms. And still, something is off.

She is probably perimenopausal, another growing public health concern among women in their late forties. As oestrogen fluctuates through midlife, the body's inflammatory tone rises. Researchers increasingly connect this shift, and the slow background inflammation now nicknamed "inflammaging," to exactly her cluster of complain...