What aging actually is, and what a number measured off a body really predicts. The two abstract questions, together.
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The word gets used for two different things. Lifespan is how long you live; longevity, as this field uses it, is how many of those years you are well. What determines it, and what is actually proven.
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Calculate your biological age free from your own blood work, using the published formula. What it means, how to measure it, and what actually lowers it.
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Per measurement, from the validation studies, with what we would pick for each one. Plus the other half nobody asks: what a sensor strapped to your skin around the clock is actually doing to it.
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Hallmarks of aging · Epigenetics · Senescence · Blood markers · Body composition · Self-tests
Bloodwork & testing
Your lipid panel has five or six numbers on it and they are not equally important. Which one carries the risk, which one is a message about something else, and how far diet and training actually move them.
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Fasting glucose, HbA1c and insulin measure three different things and they disagree more often than anyone tells you. What each one sees, what it misses, and which of them a trial has ever moved.
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