Your face’s hot spots may reveal how well you are aging

Reading people’s faces can literally give you a hint of how they are feeling on the inside.

Mapping the face’s hot and cool spots can provide clues to a person’s biological age — that is, how fast their cells are aging — and even detect signs of chronic diseases as such as diabetes and high blood pressure, researchers report in the July 2024 Cell Metabolism.

People with metabolic disorders such as diabetes and fatty liver disease tend to have higher eye area temperatures than those of the same age who were healthy, an analysis of nearly 3,000 Han Chinese ages 21 to 88 shows. And people with elevated blood

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