Study links mental wellbeing to healthy aging, identifies cheese as key dietary factor

A team of Chinese researchers, drawing on genetic data from 2.3 million people, has traced the quiet pathways between mental wellbeing and the way we age — finding that the mind and body do not age separately, but together, through dozens of interwoven factors. Among the 33 mediators identified, some were expected, like smoking and disease; others, like cheese consumption, arrived as quiet surprises. The study does not claim to have solved the mystery of healthy aging, but rather to have drawn a more detailed map of its terrain, one that places mental health at the center of physical resilienc