Want to lower your biological age? Doctors reveal key lifestyle changes
Experts reveal factors that accelerate your biological age
- Biological age, unlike chronological age, reflects how well your body functions based on lifestyle, stress, and cellular health, and can be reversed through lifestyle changes.
- Experts like Dr. Mattias Bernow and Dr. Mohammed Enayat emphasise that factors such as chronic stress, poor sleep, lack of exercise, and ultra-processed foods accelerate biological aging by increasing inflammation.
- Simple lifestyle adjustments such as quality sleep, regular exercise, a balanced diet, and meaningful relationships can slow down biological aging.
- Supplements like protein, collagen, fish oil, magnesium, creatine, and polyphenols can support healthy aging when used thoughtfully alongside healthy habits, but should not replace them.
- Determining biological age requires blood tests that analyse DNA methylation patterns, such as the Horvath Clock, GlycanAge, and DunedinPACE, with experts advocating for consistency in maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle over extreme measures.