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23.02.2024 |
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Why people in their sixties with a purpose in life are healthier
People in their sixties who experience their lives as purposeful have fewer inflammatory factors such as CRP in their blood than people in their sixties who think that their lives have no purpose. Because high CRP levels are bad for just about every facet of your health, living a purposeful life makes you healthier.
Study
A lifestyle that lowers the concentration of inflammatory proteins such as CRP reduces the risk of premature death or chronic disease. The researchers wondered whether psychological factors also play a role in the activity of inflammatory proteins. They suspected that experiencing meaning and purpose in life reduces CRP concentration.
Results
However, in the oldest 25 percent of the study participants - those aged 81 years and older - purpose no longer had any effect on the concentration of CRP in the blood.
Mechanism
"While the experience of purposeful goals may exert beneficial health-related function in early old age, when individuals typically confront goal-related stressors that could be potentially overcome, high levels of purpose in life may be less adaptive in advanced old age, when many older adults confront intractable problems and unattainable goals", the researchers speculate.
If psychologists are right, people who want to live a purposeful life in advanced old age still have less CRP in their blood if they are exceptionally fit and healthy. Or if they are resourceful and can still achieve their life goals despite their declining health.
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