Fondly remembering the cast of the DC-area premiere of Itโs My Party!, October, 2025
Want to live a longer-than-average life? But โlongevity brosโ kind of creep you out? Hereโs a new strategy that does not involve injections, pills, weird workouts or restrictive diets
A recent study out of University College London (UCL) found that ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ด is good not only for your brain, but for your body.
Leading to a possibly longer life.
โโฆ ACEng [arts and cultural engagement] a much more recently recognized health behavior, is related to epigenetic aging, with magnitudes comparable to PA [Physical activity]. These findings position ACEng as a potential contributor to healthy aging at the biological level, supporting its inclusion in public health strategies.โ
As someone who has long had to fight the notion that art is "good for kids" โa frill,โ โa nice to have but not a ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ,โ I am glad to see this study making the rounds.
As an arts practitioner whose public speaking clients inhabit non-arts spaces, I am frequently extolling the benefits of arts participation.
There have been studies before, linking arts to brain health and emotional health. But it's an especially wonderful thing to read that arts engagement is a health behavior that can decelerate, and ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ epigenetic aging!
Because I need to live a ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต longer to get all my stuff done.
