Molecular damage accumulates and contributes to the development of aging-related frailty and serious diseases. In some people these molecular processes are more intense than in others, a condition commonly referred to as accelerated aging.
Fortunately, the increased pace of aging may be detected before its disastrous consequences manifest by using digital models of aging . Such models can also be used to derive anti-aging therapies on individual and population levels., any anti-aging therapy needs to focus on one's mental health as much as on one's physical health.
Aging 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 one's biological age more than smoking. Other factors linked to aging acceleration include being single and living in a rural area .
Alex 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 scale."web service, FuturSelf.AI, that is based on a preceding publication in. The service offers a free psychological assessment that is processed by an AI and provides a comprehensive report on a user's psychological age as well as current and future mental well-being.
Deep Longevity developed the Longevity as a Service solution to integrate multiple deep biomarkers of aging dubbed"deep aging clocks" to provide a universal multifactorial measure of human biological age.Psychological and biological aging clocks reveal the main contributors to the aging rate in Chinese older adults,