{"id":765,"date":"2026-07-27T06:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/it-was-like-something-was-crawling-over-me-the-worrying-rise-of-shingles-among-millennial-women-health-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T06:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:13:12","slug":"it-was-like-something-was-crawling-over-me-the-worrying-rise-of-shingles-among-millennial-women-health-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/it-was-like-something-was-crawling-over-me-the-worrying-rise-of-shingles-among-millennial-women-health-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was like something was crawling over me\u2019 \u2013 the worrying rise of shingles among millennial women | Health | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt only takes a small gap in your immune function to let this virus pop out. Having a respiratory disease like Covid or flu \u2026 getting a bad sunburn, having type 2 diabetes or even treatment with steroids (which suppress immune system responses) can lead to an eruption of shingles.\u201d She also believes, \u201csomething else is happening on a very large scale that is putting people at higher risk for reactivation \u2013 the declining health of humans in general. Less activity, poor diet, more stress, even maybe a warming climate.\u201d Her list goes on: \u201cLack of social supports, eating ultra-processed foods, not cooking at home, not sleeping enough, higher income inequality, lack of access to healthcare \u2013 this last [one] is a major problem for young people in the US,\u201d she points out.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/jul\/26\/shingles-rise-millennial-women\">www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/jul\/26\/shingles-rise-millennial-women<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt only takes a small gap in your immune function to let this virus pop out. Having a respiratory disease like Covid or flu \u2026 getting a bad sunburn, having type 2 diabetes or even treatment with steroids (which suppress immune system responses) can lead to an eruption of shingles.\u201d She also believes, \u201csomething else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,176],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-health","tag-shingles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}