Racism and discrimination make the brain age faster, study finds

Stress can speed up the biological clock, making people more vulnerable to aging-related conditions, from cardiovascular disease to diabetes and dementia.

Racism steals time from people’s lives—possibly because of the space it occupies in the mind. In a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open, our team showed that the toll of racism on the brain was linked to advanced aging, observed on a cellular level.