A 2025 NYU study found that women who actively worry about aging — particularly those who fear future health problems — measurably age faster at the cellular level than those who do not, in a quiet fi

Worrying about getting old, it turns out, may not be a neutral psychological activity. In November 2025, Mariana Rodrigues, a PhD student at the NYU School of Global Public Health, and colleagues published a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Psychoneuroendocrinology analysing data from 726 adult women across the United States. The participants had completed standardised […]