Friends With Wrinkles: How Your Circle Ages You
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Although we think that genes, diet, and skin products make us grow older, new cellular research and a new field called “psychoneuroimmunology” have found that the groups we hang out with are the primary causes that contribute to the speed at which we “age” internally and biologically.
Relationships in constant disrepair have the power to throw us into a continuous cortisol stress cycle and inflammatory processes, which, through their rapid effect on reducing “telomere” shortening, directly cause biological aging. That means the people around you, intentionally or not, could be accelerating the aging process of your cells!