How does stress from major life events affect aging?

More than one quarter of us will have a "major life event" within any one year: a death, a divorce, a job loss or job change, an illness in the family, financial difficulties, relocation, involvement in a lawsuit, or other serious trauma. While you can't prevent these unfortunate events from occurring, you can have a stress-control plan already in place when they do. Because stress from a major event has a big effect on your RealAge (physiologic age).

And having a stress control plan in place can make your RealAge substantially younger. The occurrence of one major life event makes your RealAge about five years older during the event and for at least one year (and probably two years) afterward. Two major life events in one year can make your RealAge as much as sixteen years older; and three major life events, more than thirty-two years older for at least the following year.

All of us have some stress in our lives, and each of us will experience at least one major life event, if not many. And stresses exacerbate one another. Having that first stress makes it more difficult for your body to handle the second, and having the first and second makes it even more difficult to handle the third, and so forth.

The question is not whether you will suffer stress, because you know we will, but how you manage it when it happens.

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