In day-to-day life, we are all aware that stress or being sad is not good for our health. Research shows that due to problems like sadness, loneliness, lack of focus, restlessness, sadness, and so on, you can get them quickly or you will start to look older than your age.
Experts and scientists all around the globe are using artificial intelligence to create a new kind of clock. It can detect your current biological age or biological age by adding the efforts of psychological factors and some interesting things.
Early testing of research shows that the effect of mental illness on the human body can sometimes be greater than any physical illnesses or habits like smoking. In simple or easy words, if you are not happy, it can be more dangerous than any effects of diseases or bad habits.
Many years or ages ago, human beings were living lives at chronological age, but if two people were born on the same day, they were not necessarily equal healthy. By measuring a human bear’s physical health, how much is a human being’s biological age? For example, how many years young or how old is that human being?
If this forecast is accurate, experts and scientists can find out why some individuals grow faster than others. Also, what lifestyle factors affect aging? But there are some core components of human health or people, which were not added to previous attempts to make a clock on our mental and emotional state.
The research was conducted in 2021 among 23 million people in New Zealand. In the research, a deep relationship was found between mental disorders, the onset of physical illness, and death. Another study was also done in the same year, which found that mental health illnesses and problems increase with age rapidly.
After keeping the results in mind, researchers from the US and Hong Kong developed computer algorithms to create new aged clocks. They contain many psychological health factors and blood biomarkers. They algorithmically trained data from nearly 5000 healthy adults in the China health and retirement longitudinal study dataset. The dataset included only people aged 45 and older. Later, they tested it on the data of 700 other people.
According to research published in a journal
Researchers expect to find that psychological factors, including sad feelings and loneliness, add 1.65 years to a human being’s biological age. Researchers believe that psychological factors should not be ignored in studies related to aging because they have an effect on biological age.
The psychological health data of the participants was based on 8 types of emotions, including loneliness, sadness, lack of focus, restlessness, sadness, hopelessness, and fear. When this clock was tested on human beings suffering from cancer, heart disease, liver disease, lung disease, or stroke, its accuracy showed that they were older than healthy people of their age.
The impact of these conditions on the estimated age was not more than 1.5 years. According to the algorithm, even if all the psychological factors were added, there was only a 1.65 increase in age. But that does not mean smoking, compared to depression and loneliness, is less dangerous to health. Smoking is one of the biggest risk factors for many types of cancer and heart disease.
Researchers and experts say that the result is that the harmful effects of mental health not being cured are as severe as those caused by serious illness, sadness, and smoking.
