Pregnancy can speed up aging

Scientists have found that just one pregnancy can accelerate a mother’s biological age.

In a recent study published by the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that women who have been through pregnancy were more likely to show signs of accelerated biological aging as opposed to those who have not been pregnant. The researchers then looked at how being pregnant more than once might affect measures of aging.

Women with more pregnancies aged up to five months faster compared to women with fewer pregnancies or an acceleration of the pace of aging by nearly 2% a year per pregnancy.

“Energy invested into reproduction is thought to come at the expense of bodily maintenance,” the researchers wrote.

Read more: PNAS

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