"Drawing on data from more than 3,500 adults in the UK Household Longitudinal Study, the researchers found that people who engaged more frequently and more diversely with arts and cultural activities showed signs of slower biological aging across several advanced epigenetic aging clocks. Remarkably, the associations were found to be comparable in magnitude to those linked with physical activity."
"Over the last decade, Daisy Fancourt's research has helped establish the growing field of arts and health, demonstrating how cultural participation can affect stress regulation, immune function, mental health, cognitive resilience, and even mortality risk. Her 2026 book Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health argued that the arts should be considered a foundational pillar of wellbeing alongside sleep, diet, exercise, and nature."
"This new study by Fancourt together with Lehané Masebo, Saoirse Finn, Hei Wan Mak, and Feifei Bu pushes that argument further. The research investigates whether cultural engagement may be linked to measurable biological aging pr"
People who engage more frequently and more diversely with arts and cultural activities show signs of slower biological aging measured by epigenetic aging clocks. Data from more than 3,500 adults in the UK Household Longitudinal Study links arts and cultural participation to reduced biological aging across multiple advanced epigenetic measures. The associations are comparable in magnitude to those linked with physical activity. Prior arts-and-health research has connected cultural participation with stress regulation, immune function, mental health, cognitive resilience, and mortality risk. The findings extend arts-and-health benefits from emotional wellbeing toward molecular processes that influence how quickly the body ages over time.
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