We all want to take excellent care of our skin, since it’s no secret skin is key to looking young and fresh. Our skin says a lot about us : our diet, our habits, and our stress levels. Now scientists are saying the the poor age faster than the rich, as proven in studies undertaken to see how psychological stress affects the aging of the body and the skin at the cellular level.
What it all breaks down to, is your socioeconomic status can be the difference between a whole 7 years of aging. When you consider what dramatic changes your skin can undertake in just seven years, especially after a certain age, this is huge!
British scientists who have undertaken this groundbreaking study have found that people with lower socio-economic status tend to age faster than their financially more stable or well off counterparts.
What the whole accelerated aging process in the poor breaks down to is that the poor, due to more psychological stress (perhaps over money, comfort items, stress over bills etc.) have shortened “telomeres”, which are the caps on your chromosomes which prevent them from fraying, hence aging.
