Want To Slow Down Ageing? Head To Your Local Museum

Longevity experts list a healthy diet, an active lifestyle, and adequate sleep as well-researched ways to increase your odds of a longer life.

But if you’re looking for a more recreational buffer against ageing, a new paper published in Innovation in Ageing has found that people who engage with the arts tend to age more slowly. 

People, especially over-40s, who regularly engaged with culture had lower biological ages at the DNA level, and appeared to age 4% more slowly.

The benefits are “comparable to [those] found in previous studies between current smokers and ex-smokers,” University College London (UCL), whose researchers wrote the paper, said.

How often people attended cultural events seemed to matter

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