Scientists around the world have started to use artificial intelligence frequently for their research. In the research in this news, the researchers used an artificial intelligence that acts as a special clock that can measure the real biological age of people.
In the light of their findings, scientists conducting their artificial intelligence-supported research observed that being unhappy has a much greater aging effect on some people than smoking.
People with mental problems age faster than those with physical problems:
Many years of experiments among 2.3 million New Zealanders in 2021 found a strong association between mental disorders and the onset of physical illness and death. So the researchers designed a computer algorithm to create a new aging clock that measures various psychological health factors and blood biomarkers.
As a result, the researchers discovered that psychological factors, such as feeling unhappy or lonely, add 1.65 years to a person’s biological age. The effect of unhappiness; even more so than other individual demographics, including biological sex, habitat, marital status, and smoking status. The damage of smoking alone to human biological age was 1.25 years.
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