What Is Your Biological Age?

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How fast have you been aging? Let us explain.

What Is Your Biological Age? And Why Does It Matter?

If you haven’t yet heard, you have two ages. Surprise! The one you know already is that number tracking the times you’ve traveled around the sun or the one on your driver’s license — your chronological age. The other, which you may not be aware of, is tracking the way your cells have changed as you’ve been alive — your biological age. A quick entry in a Pearson Chronological Age calculator and you can figure out your chronological age to the day. On your birthday, people could shout, “Happy Chronological Age Day!” — although it doesn’t work so well with cake and candles.
Your cells, rudely enough, do not celebrate your birthday. With only some regard for your chronological age, your tissues, organs and blood reflect your “phenotypic age,” more commonly known as your biological age. Biological age is a measurement of your age based on various biomarkers — a number that can change due to lifestyle and other health factors.

“Knowing your biological age is an effective way of determining your cumulative rate of aging,” says Morgan Levine, Ph.D., assistant professor of Pathology at the Yale School of Medicine and Elysium’s Bioinformatics Advisor. Cumulative rate of aging is your biological age relative to your chronological age — a measure of the pace at which your body has aged for every year you’ve been alive. Your biological age reflects a combination of your genetics, accumulated lifestyle factors, and other determinants such as demographics, diet, and exercise habits.

How to Understand Your Biological Age

Knowing your biological age is a big step in understanding the entirety of your health profile. But the second aspect is equally important: tracking your biological age. Because biological age can shift, seeing changes over time is vital to understanding what is good and bad for your health.
“Different behaviors will affect different biological ages in a different way,” Levine says. “The only way to know what is working for you is to have an outcome measure that’s tracking how the different things you’re doing in your life are actually influencing your health.”

Keep in mind that you should not rely on your biological age test results to screen, diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition or assess risk of any disease or condition, unless indicated otherwise by the test. Also, unless advised by your healthcare professional, biological age should not be used to determine or alter any chronological age-related health or medical treatments.

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Well done,  your Biological Age is 36

Congratulations! You knocked 9 years off your age! Here are the key things you should do to live even longer:

• Try to sleep regular hours and regular times. Too little sleep is not good for your mind or your body.
  
• Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, it will give you sustaining energy to help you cope with what your day has to offer. Try to eat breakfast every day. A sustaining, protein based breakfast is the most ideal, for example: oatmeal, granola, museli or eggs.
  
• Eating at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a day, everyday. This is essential for general health.
  
• Highly refined and deep fried foods are a 'sometimes' treat and should only be eaten occasionally.
  
• Do a few push ups (or similar exercise) everyday.