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Extreme Heat Is Miserable and Dangerous. It’s Also Making Us Age Faster

UNITED STATES AND GERMANY, JUL 25 – People exposed to over 140 extreme heat days annually age up to 14 months faster, with women and those with diabetes or obesity at higher risk, researchers found.

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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The soupy, smothering extreme heat that has scorched parts of the Northern Hemisphere this summer takes a hard toll on our bodies. It can make you feel nauseous, woozy and dehydrated. It can have pernicious health effects on multiple organs. But there’s another, less well-known, impact of extreme heat: It makes you age faster. Prolonged exposure to soaring temperatures can cause a deterioration in our cells and tis…

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Extreme heat is making us age faster. Here’s how

Scientists are unpicking the ways heat is slowly and silently undermining human health at a cellular level

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WAAY-TV broke the news in Huntsville, United States on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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