Mid Rivers Newsmagazine featured research by Jennifer Ailshire on how more days of excess heat affects biological aging. “It’s really about the combination of heat and humidity, particularly for older adults, because older adults don’t sweat the same way. We start to lose our ability to have the skin-cooling effect that comes from that evaporation of sweat,” Ailshire explained. “If you’re in a high humidity place, you don’t get as much of that cooling effect. You have to look at your area’s temperature and your humidity to really understand what your risk might be.”
June 11, 2025 | Print
