Listening to music slows aging

[PristineSound]

Summary: Recent study shows that activities such as listening to music showed about a 4% slower rate of epigenetic aging compared with people who rarely participated in such activities.

Moral of the story: don't feel guilty spending money on HiFi audio as it is an investment into your health and longevity.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-relaxation-of-listening-to-a-song-or-drawing-a-picture-may-actually-slow-cellular-aging-new-research-show-180988734/

 

[Somafunk]

Summary: Recent study shows that activities such as listening to music showed about a 4% slower rate of epigenetic aging compared with people who rarely participated in such activities.

What about 8hrs of clubbing dancing/listening to 130bpm techno fuelled by pharmaceuticals?, coz I always felt rather aged and stiff with the walking gait of a 90yr old and the shakes of a poor Parkinson’s sufferer the following day……and the day after that……and the day after that…..but on the day after that we planned the coming weekend’s shenanigans and began the routine yet again.

Ahhh….my youth in the 90’s is but a dream……..

 

[Snarfie]

The picture changes when looking at professional popular musicians making music, where lifestyle factors appear to play a much larger role. This is perhaps not surprising.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26966963/

 

[Redacted]

It's likely all made up - most 'studies' these exist purely to satisfy the needs of 'academic' institutions trying to bump up the numbers of published papers - i.e. it's marketing driven!

 

[Bleib]

Sounds like this has more to do having time to listen to music..which obviously not everyone does

 

[Tell]

Music itself is definitely good for your mental well being and that will definitely make you live longer. The lifestyle around it is more questionable though, all the way from working your ass at a company you don't like so you can buy snake oil audiophoolery, to chewing drugs so you can dance to 190bpm psycore for three days straight.