Loneliness, sadness may speed up ageing faster than smoking: Study

According to a study weakness and major diseases associated with ageing are worsened by the development of molecular damage Some peoples molecular processes are more intense than others causing them to age fasterFortunately the increased pace of ageing may be detected before its disastrous consequences manifest by using digital models of ageing ageing clocks Such models can also be used to derive antiageing therapies on individual and population levelsAccording to the latest article published in AgingUS any antiageing therapy needs to focus on ones mental health as much as on ones physical health An international collaboration led by Deep Longevity with the US and Chinese scientists have measured the effects of being lonely having restless sleep or feeling unhappy on the pace of ageing and found it to be significantThe article features a new ageing clock trained and verified with blood and biometric data of 11914 Chinese adults This is the first ageing clock to be trained exclusively on a Chinese cohort of such volumeAgeing acceleration was detected in people with a history of stroke liver and lung diseases smokers and most interestingly people in a vulnerable mental state In fact feeling hopeless unhappy and lonely was shown to increase ones biological age more than smoking Other factors linked to ageing acceleration include being single and living in a rural area due to the low availability of medical servicesThe authors of the article concluded that the psychological aspect of aging should not be neglected either in research or in practical antiaging applications According to Manuel Faria from Stanford University Mental and psychosocial states are some of the most robust predictors of health outcomes and quality of life yet they have largely been omitted from modern healthcareAlex Zhavoronkov the CEO of Insilico Medicine points out that the study provides a course of action to slow down or even reverse psychological aging on a national scaleEarlier this year Deep Longevity released an AIguided mental health web service FuturSelfAI that is based on a preceding publication in AgingUS The service offers a free psychological assessment that is processed by an AI and provides a comprehensive report on a users psychological age as well as current and future mental wellbeing Deepankar Nayak the CEO of Deep longevity affirmsFuturSelfAI in combination with the study of older Chinese adults positions Deep Longevity at the forefront of biogerontological researchAlso Read People with long Covid19 need to take extra precaution in polluted air ExpertsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever