The study by researchers at Princeton University analyzed the genes of 400,000 people in the United Kingdom between the ages of 39 and 73 and 13,500 Australians, aged 18-89. They sifted through the data to find people who have never had any type of sexual experience with the same or opposite sex. This left them with a dataset of 2,068 sexless females and 1,861 sexless males. What they found is surprising.
According to a new study, being socially engaged can have a profound impact on epigenetic ageing. What does that mean? It can slow changes at the cellular level that are reliable predictors of infirmity, disease and early death. Are you suggesting that being socially engaged will make me live longer? That's about the size of it, yes. How would that even work? The hypothesis suggests that high levels of social interaction reduce your stress response, and the long-term biological consequences systemic inflammation, cellular ageing associated with it.