Find out your 'real' biological age with new test - you could be younger than you think
dailystar.co.ukElysium, requires nothing more than a saliva sample and £400 ($499 USD) and they'll tell you your real age with some high-tech 'epigenetic clock' tests.In one case, 59-year-old Ivy Chan found out she was biologically 43, giving her a powerful insight into how to look after herself properly in the years to come.
Her son, Jay, told the Guardian: "It was such a relief for her, because it gives her a newfound hope about life planning."Knowing how fast she is really ageing, it gives her a renewed sense of self and how she should live in the upcoming decade."He added: "She thought maybe she had another 20 or maybe 30 healthy years, but now it seems like that's gonna be 40 or even 50 if we are lucky." Companies like Elysium use a variety of DNA testing methods to find out how old you are.
In one case, they measure the length of 'telomeres'; structures in our DNA which shorten as you age. Other methods use blood samples to look for molecules associated with decreased bodily function or even scan people's eyes.
Using this data, scientists can accurately "predict time to death" and let you know how long you've got left on the biological clock.The tests might not help you live longer, as they don't exactly indicate to doctors what the risk factors for your body are."Currently these clocks are not useful for the average person because we don't have an intervention to slow aging. "Let's say a medical doctor orders an epigenetic clock test, and it indicates a patient is older than they should be, what should the doctor say?
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