{"id":140786,"date":"2022-06-19T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/stress-accelerates-aging-of-immune-system-new-research-shows"},"modified":"2022-06-19T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T13:02:21","slug":"stress-accelerates-aging-of-immune-system-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/stress-accelerates-aging-of-immune-system-new-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"Stress accelerates aging of immune system, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stress-accelerates-aging-of-immune-system-new-research-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longevity.technology\/lifestyle\/tag\/stress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stress<\/a> \u2013 whether it\u2019s job strain, emotional wrangles or health worries \u2013 is something we all experience. However, a new study from USC shows stress accelerates aging of the immune system, potentially increasing a person\u2019s risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and illness from infections such as COVID-19 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/full\/10.1073\/pnas.2202780119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Longevity. Technology: The new research, which has been published in the <\/em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<em>, could help explain disparities in age-related health, including the unequal toll of the pandemic, and identify possible points for intervention.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the world\u2019s population of older adults increases, understanding disparities in age-related health is essential. Age-related changes in the immune system play a critical role in declining health,\u201d said lead study author Eric Klopack, a postdoctoral scholar in the<a href=\"https:\/\/gero.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology<\/a>. \u201cThis study helps clarify mechanisms involved in accelerated immune aging [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/200213\/stress-aging-immune-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2<\/a>].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress \u2013 whether it\u2019s job strain, emotional wrangles or health worries \u2013 is something we all experience. However, a new study from USC shows stress accelerates aging of the immune system, potentially increasing a person\u2019s risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and illness from infections such as COVID-19 [1]. Longevity. Technology: The new research, which has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}