Celebrating Your 49th Birthday… Again

A study published in J AMA Internal Medicine examined data from 6,489 people with an average age of 65.8 years who felt approximately 10 years younger than their actual age. What’s interesting is most people in the study didn’t feel like their actual age. Only 4.8 percent reported feeling at least a year older than their actual age. University College London researchers followed up over the next eight years and found only 14 percent of those who felt younger than their age had died. Over 24 percent of those who reported feeling older than their age had passed away. Sounds like a youthful outlook keeps the doctor away.