By integrating findings from 140 studies and nearly 66,000 individuals, researchers from the Biosocial team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in collaboration with Columbia University in New York have shown that lower socioeconomic status and exposure to discrimination are consistently associated with accelerated biological aging, measured in the epigenome.

link to open access study https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02477-6

There is now abundant correlational evidence linking a range of socially stratified exposures with epigenetic clock measures of biological ageing (for example, environmental toxicants, access to healthcare and stress)6,10,57,58,59,60. Quasi-experimental studies further provide causal evidence that early-life conditions—poverty, in utero undernutrition from famine and lower educational attainment—accelerate later-life epigenetic ageing32,61,62

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    Hey, another study definitively proving stress ages you faster.

    Good thing we live in the future where we are 1,000x to 1,000,000x as productive as our ancestors in literally all fields and jobs so we can work 1,000x to 1,000,000x less than them. Good thing too we produce 2.5x the amount of food we need to consume globally for every single human on Earth to eat like the average American. Good thing too we are able to ship food anywhere on earth and have it still not only be edible but have a shelf life of months in most cases. Good thing too we are able to custom tailor make plants to grow in specific biomes and conditions so we can effectively maximize our farming output with the least amount of labor and most amount of abundance. Good thing too that we can indefinitely preserve pretty much all food stuffs in statistically safe preservatives and processes. Good thing too we can generate unlimited free energy and even produce more than enough energy storage for all household needs. Good thing too we can essentially live completely off of plants and do not need to harm animals whatsoever to effectively survive. Good thing too we have literally centuries of building data and hyper-futuristic materials that are literally so cheap they’re often used by bored wine moms to spruce up their living room or provide a sleeping surface for their cat, with which we can ensure every single human on Earth is housed and safe from the elements. Good thing too we have advanced enough in our psychological studies to fully understand addiction and at least the signs of all common mental illnesses and have effective treatment methods for both that have near 100% success rates at rehabilitation to independent living.

    It sure would suck if the only thing that kept us stressed were a group of hyper-religious narcissistic psychopaths incapable of understanding or processing emotion that have used that quirk of their biology over generations to completely dominate nearly all of society, certainly all of western society and have used the good nature of normal humans to entrench themselves in truly disgusting amounts of power all so they can say they’re on top and better than everyone else.