Deep Longevity, in collaboration with American and Chinese scientists, measured the effects of loneliness, restless sleep, and sadness on the rate of aging and found that they were significant. Frailty and major diseases associated with aging are exacerbated by the accumulation of molecular damage. Some people’s molecular processes are more intense than others, leading them to age faster.
Fortunately, the use of digital models of aging, the increased rate of aging can be detected before its disastrous consequences of aging manifest themselves. These models can also be used to develop anti-aging therapies for individuals and populations.
According to the most recent article published in Aging-US, any anti-aging therapy must address both mental and physical health.
The article mentions the first aging clock that was trained solely on a large Chinese cohort and describes a new aging clock that was trained and validated using blood and biometric data from 11,914 Chinese adults.
People with a history of stroke, liver and lung disease, smokers, and most intriguingly, people in a vulnerable state of mind are experiencing comparatively faster ageing. Feeling hopeless, unhappy, and alone has also been observed to increase biological age more than smoking.
Being single and living in rural areas without adequate medical facilities and a few more reasons for faster aging.
“Mental and psychosocial states are some of the strongest predictors of health outcomes and quality of life, but have been largely ignored in modern health care,” said Manuel Faria of Stanford University.
Insilico Medicine CEO Alex Zhavoronkov reports that the study provides a course of action to “slow or even reverse psychological aging on a national scale.”
Deep Longevity has also launched an AI-guided mental health web service: FuturSelf.AI, which builds on a previous post in Aging-US. The service provides a free psychological evaluation that is processed by artificial intelligence and results in a comprehensive report on the current and future mental well-being of users, as well as their psychological years.
“FuturSelf.AI, along with the study of Chinese older adults, puts Deep Longevity at the forefront of biogerontology research,” said Deepankar Nayak, CEO of Deep Longevity.
With inputs from the ANI.
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