If you're constantly saying, 'I feel 100 years old,' despite not being 100, this is why.
published in June found that people living in neighborhoods with more access to green spaces had biological ages that were on average 2.5 years younger than those with limited access. The authors found further disparities when also looking at race, sex, and socioeconomic status.
There is one caveat to biological age to consider, Nwanaji-Enwerem notes. Assessing someone’s biological age, regardless of what variable you’re looking at, means jotting down their stats and comparing them to the rest of the population on a bell curve. But more research is needed to know exactly how biological age translates to good health, he says—if a 40-year-old person has a liver with a biological age of 40, does that automatically mean they’re healthy? We don’t have exact answers.
Regardless, Nwanaji-Enwerem thinks biological age is a useful metric for researchers because it gives them a quick, quantitative explanation for the myriad variables that affect the health of individuals and populations.
That said, experts don’t think regular individuals need to be thinking about biological age in everyday life. It’s not realistic for most people to test or measure, say, epigenetics on their own, and even if they could, it’s not like we have a pill or some other easy intervention to reverse it, Horvath says. There have been reports that
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