A new study highlights the significant role mental wellbeing plays in determining healthy aging, regardless of socioeconomic status. By analyzing genetic data from over 2.3 million Europeans, researchers found that better mental wellbeing leads to healthier aging, characterized by greater resilience, improved self-rated health, and longevity. Interestingly, they also identified certain lifestyle choices, including being active, not smoking, and eating cheese and fruit, as beneficial to mental wellbeing and healthy aging. The findings have been published in Nature Human Behaviour. Human life ex…