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Getting older is one of the most universal experiences we humans have. But not everyone ages the same way, or at the same rate. Now researchers are finding that people of color and members of other minoritized groups often show signs of aging faster, including developing diseases traditionally associated with

advanced age. And the way we study these conditions could be leaving those folks behind.

For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. Joining me today is Alexis Reeves,

a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine's Department

of Epidemiology and Population Health. She studies the mechanisms by which structural and

interpersonal racism contribute to aging, including the early onset of menopause.

Thanks for being here, Alexis. So what first got you interested in studying aging?

So the base of everything is my family and my experiences growing up. I grew up in California

in a town where we were one of the only black and minority families in the town. And I saw how

racism kind of at the interpersonal level with

micro-macroaggressions and at the structural level, such as who gets to make an offer on

a house that you're interested or what classes you get to take in school was ever present,

despite all the sacrifices my parents made to have us live in that town.

When it came to choosing my career on studying how racism gets under the skin and affects your health,

and this can be present even regardless of your socioeconomic circumstances,

and this is what I observed through my family, my internal family, and then my external

family as well. And I almost fell into that idea of weathering, which was coined. So I'm going to

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