3 common factors may be secretly speeding up the aging process, expert says

Lifestyle habits and environmental exposures may affect processes involved in cellular health and biological aging.

That’s according to functional medicine expert Dr. Will Cole, co-author of the upcoming book “Heal Your Cells,” who believes modern lifestyle factors may contribute to cellular dysfunction, which can can influence inflammation, sleep and other processes tied to overall health.

“Our genetics haven’t changed in thousands of years, but our world has changed dramatically in such a finite period of time,” Pennsylvania-based Cole told Fox News Digital. “It’s the foods we’re eating or not eating, it’s environmental toxins that were never on the landscape before, it’s stress and trauma.”

Cole said a person may find similar benefits through any belief system or community that “shifts your state,” as well as through a connection to nature.

Modern stressors may affect the body in ways that are not always immediately visible, Cole noted.

“The cell becomes confused and doesn’t know how to function well and doesn’t know how [to] repair itself,” he said. “We just need to give our body a fighting chance to hear through the noise.”

He added that addressing physical, mental-emotional and spiritual well-being may help reduce what he calls “epigenetic noise.”