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Podcast: Science Quickly
Episode: How Racism Might Be Accelerating Aging and Menopause
Description: Discrimination may be speeding up the aging process for people of color and other minoritized groups. Research is revealing that structural and interpersonal racism could be key factors in why these communities often age faster and face age-related diseases sooner. Alexis Reeves, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, studies how racism affects aging, with a focus on early menopause. In a conversation with Science Quickly host Rachel Feltman, Reeves discusses how traditional research methods might be overlooking these critical disparities.This episode is part of “Innovations In: Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that...