Extreme heat causes the body to age faster

Extreme heat not only strains the heart and kidneys and slows down mental performance, but can also have invisible effects on the body – at the cellular and molecular levels. In particular, it accelerates the aging of the body. American scientists came to this conclusion and presented it at a scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Seattle, Washington, reports Nature.

Researchers studied the health effects of high temperatures by analyzing DNA markers from more than 3,000 people. According to scientists, the negative effects of heat may not appear immediately as a visible result, but rather manifest themselves at the cellular and molecular levels, and…