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Repeated heatwaves can age you as much as smoking or drinking (www.nature.com)

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[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Guess I should turn on the AC when it's 80F inside?

I would like to know more about the mechanisms of action, and ongoing research.

[–] medem@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago

Nice to know it's not just me feeling like I'm 80yo whenever it's 40c outside...

[–] MalReynolds@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

They then compared biological age with the total cumulative temperature that participants were probably exposed to on the basis of their address in the two years before their medical visit.

Gonna call that tenuous, thin even. Would look at the paper, but fucking paywalls.