Unhappiness makes us older more than cigarettes do

According to a new study conducted with the help of artificial intelligence, it was found the aging effect of unhappiness in some people was much stronger than smoking. When we take a look at the details of this research we see following.

Scientists all over the world have now started to use artificial intelligences frequently for their research. The researchers also used an artificial intelligence that acted as a special clock that can measure the actual biological age of people.

Scientists conducting their artificial intelligence-supported research have observed that being unhappy has a more powerful aging effect on some people than smoking in the light of the findings obtained.

In 2021, based on experiments conducted among 2.3 million New Zealanders over many years, a strong relationship between mental decadence and the onset of physical illness and death was found. So the researchers designed a computer algorithm to create a new aging clock that measured various psychological health factors and blood biomarkers.

As a result, the researchers found that psychological factors, such as feeling unhappy or lonely, added 1.65 years to a person’s biological age. The effect of unhappiness was even more than other individual demographic characteristics, including biological sex, living area, marital status, and smoking status. The harm of smoking alone to the human biological age was 1.25 years.