Healthy Friendship Can Help Long Age? Study Reveals The Reason

Illustration of friendship makes you live a long life. (Pexels/Helena Lopes)

JAKARTA - Having a healthy friendship group that supports each other is very important in life. This friendship is even said to help someone with a long life.

This was revealed through a recent study related to Brain, Behavior and Immunity-Health. Research found a relationship between having a solid supporting network for a younger biological age.

The study shows maintaining healthy and strong friendship can help slow aging at cell levels. Studies were conducted by analyzing data from more than 2,100 adults in the United States.

The researchers specifically saw the social connections that people have over time and accumulated on measurements of biological ageing. Researchers focus on four areas of social support, namely:

- The warmth and support their parents receive as they grow up.- How connected they feel with their communities and environment.- Their involvement in religious or religious-based communities.- The continuous support they receive from friends and family.

Through this analysis, it is found that people with levels of social support, especially friendship and family, have slower epigenetic aging higher. Thus their genes age at slower speeds, so that life can be longer.

A clinical psychology, Hillary totalist, PsyD, says that healthy and strong friendship is related to overall health. With good emotional support, humans will have high quality.

"When humans get support, both emotionally and in other ways, they tend to have higher quality of life," he said.

"From a long health point of view, it makes sense that individuals with this type of friendship have a greater long life," concluded Hillary jam.