Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Can Telomere Length Be Measured

5 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Yes, you can test telomere length, but most accurate methods are expensive. Speaker A recommends LifeLink, a Spanish company that measures the percentage of critically short telomeres. His protocol: get a baseline, try a telomere product like Telovital, then retest after six months to a year.

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Accurate tests exist but are too expensive for routine use; no widely accepted age‑based standards are mentioned.

Use LifeLink in Spain to measure the percentage of critically short telomeres, take a product like Telovital, and re‑measure after six months to a year to see if critically short telomeres have decreased.

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Can the general population test the length of their telomeres to see how long or short they are? And is there is there a standard like it should be this long or longer at this age? And if it is, you're good. Is how does this work?
The ones that are really accurate are way too expensive for personalized medicine. But my favorite company for measuring telomeres is a company called LifeLink in Spain, where the technique they use is a little more accurate, so not entirely fallible. But it measures the percent of telomeres that are critically short, which I think is the most important thing to be measuring. People can take can get their telomere lengths measured beforehand, go on a product such as telovital, and then like six months to a year later, measure again and see that there's a difference. In that case, you'd be looking at the critically short telomeres getting longer.