Health and Lifestyle Studies · Cross-sectional study

Are healthy habits linked to how our cells age?

Paper: A healthy lifestyle is positively associated with mental health and well-being and core markers in ageing
Hautekiet et al. · BMC Medicine 2022 · doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02524-9

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Are healthy habits linked to how our cells age? Researchers in Belgium surveyed 6,054 adults about habits like diet and smoking. Healthier habits went with lower odds of every mental health and well-being problem measured. Blood from 739 of them was tested. Each step up in healthy habits went with telomeres, the caps on our chromosomes, being 1.74% longer. It's one snapshot in time, so it shows a link, not proof.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: Can we slow down ageing?, ageing, healthy lifestyle, mental health, well-being, biological aging.