Being optimistic will help you live longer new research shows

Boston University School of Medicine has been researching people with optimism for decades and found something really cool. If you’re positive you will live longer.  So basically if you’re optimistic you will live “exceptionally longer” as in over 85 years old longer. 

So what does being optimistic mean? 

It means believing good things will happen, even though you can’t foresee the future. The study was based on 69,744 women and 1,429 men. Women were followed for 10 years and men were followed for 30! How being positive helps with aging is still unclear with the new research but it does help. 

"Research on the reason why optimism matters so much remains to be done, but the link between optimism and health is becoming more evident," noted senior author Fran Grodstein, ScD, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of medicine at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.