Looking Younger May Help You Live Longer

Look young. Feel young. Be young.

Here’s yet another study which has linked looking younger to a longer life. Not only that but, look younger than your years and you’ll also enjoy a better quality longer life – a longer healthspan, if you will. Don’t think you have no control over how young you look. More about that later. First what the study found.

After following 1,826 twins aged 70 and older for a seven year period during which time 675 twins had died, Danish researchers concluded that perceived facial age is a robust biomarker of aging which predicts longevity and correlates with physical and cognitive functioning, as well as length of telomeres (another predictive biomarker of longevity).

“The likelihood that the older looking twin of the pair died first increased with increasing discordance in perceived age within the twin pair – that is, the bigger the difference in perceived age within the pair, the more likely that the older looking twin died first … Perceived age, controlled for chronological age and sex, also correlated significantly with physical and cognitive functioning as well as with leucocyte telomere length.”

The study was published in the December 2009 issue of the online British Medical Journal.

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