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#55

As a biogerontologist let me teach you sth! We all have friends or family members who constantly talk about their age as a limitation, or you see people on Instagram joking in reels about how “your body can’t do X, Y, or Z after 30” or “you can’t drink like you used to.” Guess what? If you believe you can’t, then you won’t.

Subjective age, or how young or old individuals experience themselves to be relative to their chronological age, is a crucial construct in gerontology.

Meaning you believing your age impacts age related physiological markers. I don’t have much time to discuss it, you can read it for yourself.

How Old Do You Feel? The Role of Age Discrimination and Biological Aging in Subjective Age (Stephan Y., Sutin A.R., Terracciano A., 2015) — DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119293