Can Travel Slow Down the Aging Process?
If you ask people why they travel, you’ll probably get a different answer from each person. One wants to experience another culture, one is going on a bachelorette trip, one wants to make their kids better humans and another is seeing family. A reason that’s heard less often, perhaps, is to slow down biological aging.
Whatever the reasons for their trips, older folks are traveling. According to a surveycommissioned by IHG Hotels & Resorts and conducted by Talker Research, 59% of retirees are planning to travel more during retirement. Some are having “retirementmoons,” celebrating the end of their working years with a trip.
The health benefits of this are real, according to a recent study in the Journal of Travel Research. Positive travel experiences can physiologically benefit physical, mental and social health, data suggested. This research isn’t the only of its kind, either: A slightly older study in the Journal of Transport and Health reported similar results.
Excerpted from Huff Post
