We age differently

Based on measurements of your BMI, blood pressure, and other body values, a computer can quickly calculate your biological age. It could be decades from your actual age.

Age is only a number, they say. Gene researcher Daniel Belsky from Duke University in the US proved that it is true in 2015, when he developed an easy method to calculate the age of a human body, or our biological age, that is.

In a major study, he measured reliable signs of age in 954 people from their 26th to their 38th years. He measured how well the kidneys functioned, how well the heart pumped blood, and how efficiently the immune

system defeated threats. To find a more simple measuring method, his team simultaneously tested blood pressure, BMI, cholesterol, etc. Finally, a computer programme was fed all the data. The programme found a simpler

model, which calculates your body’s biological age based on 18 values.

Although all test subjects were 38 years old, some of them had a biological age of 47, whereas the bodies of others could be compared to those of 28-year-old people’s.

Two people of the same age have not aged to the same extent. Mutations, etc., could boost ageing in one of them.