[HIGHLIGHTS] Biological age: Pregnant women age two years in twenty months

US experts: Pregnant women age two years in twenty months. The stress of pregnancy accelerates aging, as work by Harvard Medical School had previously shown.

A high body mass index in the mother before pregnancy has a negative impact on this recovery effect. After birth, rejuvenation awaits women, according to the scientists at the Yale School of Medicine in the U.S. and the University of California, Los Angeles. The study was published in the journal “Cell Metabolism”