Biological Age

What is Your Biological Age?
When you were a teenager, were you like me, did you want to look older?
Most of my friends did too. We all thought it was cool to look and act older than we were. But now!
What would you give to shave a few years off your biological age? How about five years, or ten, or even twenty? Most of us dream about it, and fewer do something about it. The proper combination of diet, exercise and the other methods available today will certainly do it for you. And by now, you know how that could translate into a longer healthier lifespan, which in turn could position you to take advantage of future radical life-extending technologies.
You know what your chronological age is. I get painfully reminded every birthday. But that is not necessarily your biological age. Let’s face it, we age at different rates. Have you attended a primary or secondary school reunion recently? The last one I went to blew me away. There was at least a twenty year difference between how old some of the youthful ones looked compared to the ones who aged badly. In fact one of our teachers who attended looked younger than most of my classmates.
So why the difference? Genetics? In many cases, sure, but only partially. We can attribute about 25-35% to genetics. The rest is, by far, under your control.
Only 100 years ago, the average lifespan in the U.S. was 47 years. Today it's
nearly 80. Technology is advancing so rapidly, that you will be amazed at the
progress we are making to extend your own healthy lifespan. However, if we cure every disease, we still die. We tend to joke about aging, and then we endure it, until we get ravaged by it. Then it's not so funny. So far, aging has proven deadlier than any poison, illness, infection, injury or weapon. You can avoid, recover from, or treat the effects of all the former. But the 85% of us in developed countries who dodge death from those causes eventually die from aging. In other words, aging has killed 100% of everyone in the history of the world who were lucky enough to survive to "old age." Life extension is not new. Just look at our past. From avoiding predators to developing antibiotics, we have always sought to extend our lives. Today's technologies simply expand this scope—live long and stay healthy. This is a worthy plan for all of us.

We can technically turned back our biological clocks by an astounding
15–20 years. That could mean we can each bring ourselves the opportunity to take
advantage of over fifteen more years of nutritional, medical and longevity advances.
That could be the difference between being part of the last generation to die from aging
and being part of the first generation to live indefinitely. Taken on Thursday, June 18, 2009, at 10:14 PM