What is biological age?

Your chronological age is a number.
The number of years you have been on the earth.

Your biological age is an assessment of the damage and loss of function your body has accumulated and reflects how your biology is operating.

Biological age and Healthspan

If lifespan is the number of years we can expect to live, healthspan is the number of disease-free, healthy years we can expect.
With the progress of medicine, better infrastructure (such as indoor plumbing) and higher incomes, a 65 year old today can expect to live an extra 7 years compared to a 65 year old in 1900.
But would you want to live to 100 knowing that the last 15 years of your life would be spent in a hospital bed, or gradually losing sense to Alzheimer’s disease?
Did you know though, that 2/3 of the cases of Alzheimer’s disease are preventable? 85% of chronic conditions are the result of our environment, habits and behaviors. Which means that the risk of developing chronic conditions is UNDER OUR CONTROL. That’s good news.

My goal is to help you use the science of aging to optimize your lifestyle so that you can live a longer (lifespan) AND better (healthspan) life.

Our biological age is a better reflection of the effect of time on our health. It is influenced by the amount of inflammation in our body, stress, diet or exercise. Biological age is a number and can be measured using a specific test looking at epigenetic markers: tags, called methylation, on our genes that control their expression. The rate at which we age is associated to different patterns of DNA methylation.
Here is the exciting discovery behind this story: we can influence the patterns with our everyday choices. Unlike chronological age, biological age can be slowed and even reversed.

Someone could have spent 52 years on earth, but may only be 48 years on a biological level.

This can be accurately tested by scientific technology. Click below to get your kit, coming from Canadian company EPiAge.