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Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely
HughPickens.com writes: Ever notice at your high school reunions how some classmates look ten years older than everybody else — and some look ten years younger. Now BBC reports that a study of people born within a year of each other has uncovered a huge gulf in the speed at which human bodies bodies age. The report tracked traits such as weight, kidney function and gum health and found that some of the 38-year-olds in the study were aging so badly that their "biological age" was on the cusp of retirement. "They look rough, they look lacking in vitality," says Prof Terrie Moffitt. The study says some people had almost stopped aging during the period of the study, while others were gaining nearly three years of biological age for every twelve months that passed. "Any area of life where we currently use chronological age is faulty, if we knew more about biological age we could be more fair and egalitarian," says Moffitt. The researchers studied aging in 954 young humans, the Dunedin Study birth cohort, tracking multiple biomarkers across three time points spanning their third and fourth decades of life. They developed and validated two methods by which aging can be measured in young adults, one cross-sectional and one longitudinal. According to Moffit the science of healthspan extension may be focused on the wrong end of the lifespan; rather than only studying old humans, geroscience should also study the young. "Eventually if we really want to slow the process of ageing to prevent the onset of disease we're going to have to intervene with young people."
I have some old friends that are meth addicts that look like my grandparents.
Are your grandparents on meth?
What you do/experience when you are young (smoking, drinking to much, too little sleep, bad excercise, bad housing ... etc. ) comes back to haunt you.
Not always. Jeanne Calment was once asked what the secret of her long life was and she said that she thought that cutting down her smoking at the age of 96 had a lot to do with it.
The trick is to avoid processed milk. Just suck it right from the cow. But, make sure you find a cow and not a bull. The bull won't like it. I know that seems counterintuitive, but trust me on this one.
I guess raising kids takes a toll on your health as well as your bank account.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
It's stress; be it from the hard work in raising a family or a single person pushing 60+ hours a day with 5 hours of sleep or less. This kills the body, literally! Mental stress also shrinks the brain. I'm in my late 30s, and I can tell how much work related stress (you either have a job, or don't. There's no fucking balance in this world anymore to pay the mortgage/rent) has altered my health. I feel I've aged twice what I should have. I'm the only one in my family that has a few gray hairs early. 10 years go, people thought I was under 21.
FUCK!
Life is not for the lazy.