Category Archives: Check your age

Hearing loss: shifting gears from the ears to the brain

Everyone knows hearing loss accompanies aging. What most don’t know is that it’s not just about the ears. As we get older, a lot of us still hear sounds just fine, but we find we can’t make out conversations in … Continue reading

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A simple way to calculate your Physiological Age

Tracking your biological age is imperative to understanding your health, how you’re aging, and how your lifestyle or other interventions are helping (or harming) you. Here we provide a tool for users to calculate their PhysiAge scores based on their … Continue reading

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Two strategies for population-level healthy aging – implemented in this order

We should live in a world where everyone has the chance to age healthy. We can get there by investing in the following two strategies and implementing them in this order: (1) Personalized health tracking and advice. Stop using antioxidant supplements, … Continue reading

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Why your blood glucose levels matter for aging

Your blood glucose (BG) levels rise when you eat a meal. Your body naturally responds to this, regulating BG levels by releasing insulin, which signals to various tissues in your body to absorb this extra glucose and return your BG … Continue reading

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The best questionnaires: know if you will live to see your grandkids or Elon Musk go to Mars

The death test, the real age, and a bunch of lifespan predictors later, and where do we get? You want to know if you’ll live to see your grandchildren, if you need to plan a retirement, or if you will ever get to see … Continue reading

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6 physical tests to see how well you’re aging

Sure, they sound like tests the police might give you to check if you’ve been drinking too much, but these are in fact real ways you can see how well you’re aging, right at home. Why do these correlate so well to survival during … Continue reading

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Your age… or so you think

Check the date: Aging is traditionally measured in terms of months and years. Makes sense, considering that we all are checking our calendars and celebrating birthdays. Personally though, I always preferred the idea of measuring aging with ‘Chapters’, and that I might … Continue reading

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