Deep, lasting social bonds may be the secret to aging more slowly and living healthier, longer lives. Credit: Shutterstock The cumulative effect of social advantages across a lifetime - from parental warmth in childhood to friendship, community engagement and religious support in adulthood - may slow the biological processes of aging. These social advantages appear to set back "epigenetic clocks" such that a person's biological age, as measured by analyzing DNA methylation patterns, is younger

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