Post by robeiae on Nov 30, 2018 10:14:27 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2018/11/30/health/live-longer-biological-age-intl/index.html
Wait, what?!?!?! So if I'm understanding correctly, chrono age means next to nothing, signifies nothing, with regard to the individual. I suppose this give the guy suing to lower his age a whole new angle, right? And coupled with the idea--currently in vogue--that biological sex is "unscientific," does this mean one can choose to identify as whatever age that they feel is correct for them?
So...I hereby proclaim that I am a 28 year old Asian woman. Everyone should call me Donna Chang, from now on.
Essentially, everyone has two ages: a chronological age, how old the calendar says you are, and a phenotypic or biological age, basically the age at which your body functions as it compares to average fitness or health levels.
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"Chronological age isn't how old we really are. It's a superficial number," said professor David Sinclair, co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School. "We all age biologically at different rates according to our genes, what we eat, how much we exercise and what environmental toxins we are exposed to. Biological age is what determines our health and ultimately our lifespan. Biological age is number of candles we really should be blowing out. In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our cake than the previous one."
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"Chronological age isn't how old we really are. It's a superficial number," said professor David Sinclair, co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School. "We all age biologically at different rates according to our genes, what we eat, how much we exercise and what environmental toxins we are exposed to. Biological age is what determines our health and ultimately our lifespan. Biological age is number of candles we really should be blowing out. In the future, with advances in our ability to control biological age, we may have even fewer candles on our cake than the previous one."
So...I hereby proclaim that I am a 28 year old Asian woman. Everyone should call me Donna Chang, from now on.