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Child and Adult Adversity Doubled Frailty in UK Biobank

by GLOOM

Editorial card showing a life-course timeline with biological aging biomarkers, illustrating how cumulative childhood and adult adversity stack on the frailty index.

A 2026 UK Biobank analysis by Aas et al. in BMC Medicine tests the “adversity leaves a fixed biological scar” framing against five biological aging markers in 153,557 middle-aged and older adults — and the marker that moves most reliably isn’t telomere length or any metabolomic clock.1 Research Highlights 153,557-participant test: Aas et al. measured …

Schizophrenia and Aging: Advanced, Not Accelerated

by GLOOM

Two parallel timelines representing chronological vs. biological age in schizophrenia: an early offset at first episode, then parallel trajectories afterward — illustrating advanced rather than accelerated aging.

“Schizophrenia ages you faster” is the headline that gets repeated whenever a new biomarker study lands. The 2026 Fernandez-Egea, Garcia-Rizo and Kirkpatrick review — covering 170 studies across mortality, brain imaging, telomeres, epigenetic clocks, and metabolic markers — pushes back on that framing.2 The aging signal is genuine. “Accelerated” is the part that overshoots for …