COVID-19 can change the biological age of man and lead to accelerated aging, says molecular biologist Maxim Skulachev, a leading researcher at Moscow State University. Lomonosov. He said this in an interview with Sputnik radio.
According to the biologist, in ten days of illness the body ages for ten years.
“If you catch COVID-19, you’ll actually get all the health ‘adventures’ you have to have over the next ten years, but you’ll experience them in ten days.” That is, in some ways it looks like very accelerated aging, “Skulachev said.
According to him, this explains the high mortality rate among adult patients with COVID-19. However, after the disease everything can return to normal.
“Post-syndrome is similar to the sudden onset of old age, but people can be cured of it. During COVID-19 and after COVID a person feels bad, but then everything returns more or less to normal biological age, says the biologist.
In vaccinated coronavirus has less effect on biological age.