How to REVERSE your age!?

Mark Hyman explains biological age, measured by epigenetic clocks from blood samples, differs from chronological age. His test showed a biological age of 43 at 62. Studies show intensive diet and lifestyle programs reversed biological age by three years in eight weeks.
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So our chronological age is how long we're alive. I was born in 1959. I can't do anything about that. I just can't. I'm 63 on the calendar and I can't do anything about that. But my biological age is how old I am on the inside. So how do we reverse the biology, the biological age, while we continue to age? That's the plan. So I did, I did my biological age and I at 62, and I was 43. Wow. So. So biologically I'm 43. I'm going for 25, but I'm chronologically 62. That's crazy. We can get biologically younger as we get chronologically older. And studies have found even in eight weeks, with high intensity dietary interventions and lifestyle stuff, you can reverse biological age in eight weeks by three years. That's incredible. What's the biggest gap that has been recorded, do you know, in terms of chronological and biological? Well, this is really new because we really only started measuring the epigenetic ages through a biological clock over the last couple of years. Oh, my gosh. Because this is really new science. So now we have a metric to determine interventions and how they work on affecting your biological age. Because before you say, eat better, exercise, take this vitamin, okay, whatever, take this drug, how do we measure how it's really affecting you and your biological clock? Well, now we have metrics. How do we measure that? So it's measured by taking a blood sample and, and looking at the epigenome, which basically means above your genes. Your genes are fixed. You've got 20,000 genes. They're like the keyboard on a piano. There's 88 keys. Can't do anything about that. But the epigenome is like the piano player. You know, the piano player can play jazz, rock, classical, Mozart, you know, reggae, whatever the heck you want, blues, ragtime, all on the same piano. So that's the epigenome is the piano player. And what determines which songs get played? In your book of life, in your song book of life, is everything washing over your genes throughout your life, your thoughts, your relationships, what you eat, your exercise, sleep, how you handle stress, environmental toxins, your microbiome. Literally everything is washing over the genes constantly and regulating the epigenome. So by living a healthy lifestyle, by doing some of the things we're going to talk about around, how do we sort of hack longevity, we can actually improve the expression of our epigenome and reverse our biological clock. So that's one of the hallmarks of aging. The epigenetic degradation happens as we get older, but we can fix that. And then there's damage to proteins. So you have proteins that are the communication systems in your body, and it's like having kind of a scratched CD or. I don't know if anybody knows what a CD is anymore. Record. Yeah, yeah. And these proteins get misfolded or misshapen. They don't work right. And so you have this damaged protein, so we have to fix that.
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