Is global warming impacting healthy aging? Researchers investigated this question. We have understood that animals “live longer in colder climates than in warmer climates.” Researchers have found “ways to harness collagen expression to slow down human aging and increase lifespan in the midst of global warming.” As senior author Yiyong (Ben) Liu explains, “Based on animal studies, scientists anticipate that human lifespan will go down in the future as climate change drives up the ambient temperature. We have found that warm temperatures leading to short lifespan is not a passive, thermodynamic process as previously thought, but a regulated process controlled by the nervous system. Our findings mean that down the road, it may be possible to intervene in that process to extend human lifespan as temperatures rise.”
Healthy Aging During Global Warming
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