As any mom can tell you, having a baby takes a big toll. Growing an entire new human being inside your body demands a lot of resources, energy, and time and it can lead to dramatic physiological changes. There’s some evidence that child-bearing benefits longevity, but pregnancy can accelerate biological aging as well. Now, a new review is trying to resolve this tension in the literature.
Two geneticists from Harvard Medical School surveyed data gathered from studies that measured the biological age of women using a variety of methods, including wearable devices, blood tests and epigenetic clocks, and brain imaging. They found that pregnancy seems to speed up the biological clock, but it slows back down postpartum.
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