On your next trip, you can leave behind the anti-aging serums and books of brain teasers. According to a new published study by researchers at Edith Cowan University in Australia, travel itself can keep you young.
The positive experiences associated with trips — the social interactions, mental stimulation, physical activity and healthy cuisines — can delay the aging process, the scientists say.
In the Edith Cowan study, which Science Daily published earlier this month, the experts wanted to find out how positive travel experiences help maintain the human body’s “low entropy,” or gradual decline.
In the theoretical study, researchers noted that many of the lifestyle practices adopted by medical and mental health experts are intrinsic to travel, such as social engagement, appreciating nature, walking or other types of exercise, and nutritious meals. Immersing yourself in a novel destination, the study reports, can slow the aging process.
The researchers warn, however, that travel can also have an adverse effect.
“Conversely, tourism can involve negative experiences that potentially lead to health problems,” the researchers wrote, “paralleling the process of promoting entropy increase.”
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