Why Your Cells Age Faster Than You Think

A lot of people think that aging is just something that has to happen, and it happens pretty quickly. But from your research, how is aging actually a biological response, and how much control do we actually have over it?

It was believed that aging was kind of this programmed thing that was, like, set in our bodies that almost like once you were born, you know, the clock had ticking, and there was absolutely nothing you could do to stop it. But now we're seeing that there absolutely is something that you can do. And this has sort of led to scientists investigate in this concept, biological age. The first thing it proved was that aging was not fixed and it was not this programmed thing, because if it was, that would mean your biological age and your chronological age should always be identical. They should be playing out at the same rate, but they're not. So that showed us that there's something that's going on inside of our cells, which is either speeding up the aging process, or it's slowing down the aging process.