60-Year-Old Woman Reduced Biological Age to 35 With 4 Tricks

• The 60-year-old woman says that for the past four years or so, she has essentially been aging in reverse.
• A recent “biological age” test she took said she had the body of a 35-year-old.
• She enjoys hiking, raves, hormone therapy, and fasting.

This essay is based on a conversation with Tina Woods, CEO of Business for Health in London and a 60-year-old healthcare entrepreneur. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I just turned 60 and have never felt better.

I have the strength of a bull, dance moves that will have me dancing all night, and I radiate a newfound joy in my marriage and career.

A few years ago, I made a conscious decision to make some changes in my life. I had left the corporate world, was in the midst of watching my children reach adulthood, and was beginning hormone replacement therapy. I decided this was a good time to embark on a very simple, yet surprisingly effective, quest for longevity.

It all started when I was making plans for 2020 BookAfter reading the book “Living Longer with AI,” I longevity At the time, longevity science was still pretty fringe, so a lot of the people I spoke to were pretty outlandish in wanting to study longevity. Live Forever And who advertised Radical life extension As something that is within our reach.

But even among the most staunch immortalists I spoke to for this book, I began to notice a trend: Most of the things they actually do on a day-to-day basis to stay young are pretty simple and inexpensive. They’re usually in some way Calorie restrictiona healthy diet with lots of plants, exercise, and enough sleep. Basically, the basics. The kind of stuff your grandma would tell you.

My “biological age” has decreased by 10 years. What does this mean?

A test I had on my 60th birthday this spring revealed that my brain is aging like a 35-year-old, my heart health is like that of a mid-40s, and my metabolism is slowing.

It’s amazing to realize that in just four years, one of the key indicators of biological aging has dropped by a decade: My Glycan Age plummeted from 46 to 35, and my age went from 56 to 60. (The Glycan Age test is a finger-prick test that tracks levels of chronic inflammation in the body, which directly predicts many of the declines associated with aging.)

It drives me crazy when I see people wearing these one-of-a-kind pieces.”Biological age“Statistics are like a badge of honor, as if every new test being used to look at aging is conclusive or validated.”

I think it will help you get a holistic view of your health. Combined with the daily data you get from your smartwatch and various other devices, Apps I Track your health Over time, GlycanAge gives me a single data point that is linked to how I’m feeling, which is really useful.

If I hadn’t done the research for my book, met with the experts, and hadn’t been allowed to try out the longevity medical techniques for free, I probably wouldn’t have been able to Biological Age TestJust one can cost hundreds of dollars. Do I really need a test to know I’ve never felt this good before? Apart from regular check-ups, blood tests and scans from my doctor, I’m not about to shell out £300 just to brag about my biological age results (although it would be cool to see).

4 Simple Changes I Made to Prevent Aging

• supplement: I’m drinking a little supplementBut I don’t expect them to perform miracles.

  Like many longevity-conscious people, I always Vitamin D Every day, and also vitamin B12 Omega-3and collagen for my joints, which are definitely not what they used to be and are probably the oldest parts of my body, biologically speaking.

  A bone scan performed as part of a recent longevity trial in Poland proved diagnostic and I decided to start taking supplements gradually. calcium On non-fasting days, I like to eat Swiss cheese, prioritize protein like chicken and fish in my diet, and try to eat plenty of plant-based foods. I make a delicious lentil soup and snack on seeds and nuts. Ultra-Processed Foods.

• Calorie Restriction: Four days a week I focus only on eating One meal a dayAnd while it’s still somewhat controversial, I believe this is one of the big keys to healthy aging. Nir Barzilai I got totally hooked on this idea in New York, because he explained that it made mechanistic sense that a little bit of calorie restriction, and especially a little bit of fasting every day, might be good for human longevity. (We already know this works for flies, worms, and rats, and there’s enough anecdotal evidence that it works for humans that many longevity scientists already practice some form of calorie restriction or fasting.)

• VO2 max: I’m also a big exercise fan, staying in shape with two Zumba classes a week, strength training in my basement (my “gym”), and YouTube videos. VO2 max, Important indicators of heart health And the fitness is off the charts!

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  Thanks to this regular training, I’m healthy and ready to dance the night away with my husband in London’s coolest clubs. Being on the dance floor really gets me going and it’s brought me closer to him in a weird way, rekindling the connection I’d lost during early menopause. Music feels like my lifeline – I’m now a DJ myself, and recently made a comeback by hosting the world’s first long-running rave (in a vegan cafe, of course).

• HRT: Since I began this journey, one of the most pharmacological ways I have changed my biological age has been through hormone replacement therapy during menopause. This was an eye-opening experience. I had always been pretty fit and relatively healthy, but during menopause I noticed I was starting to gain weight, and just generally had less energy and felt less like myself. Low libido, urinary problems. YuckOr so I thought. It’s a bit boring.

  My doctor suggested I try HRT, and I initially tried the patch version, but it didn’t work very well. My current treatment is a few pumps of estradiol gel applied to the skin, some progesterone capsules, and some off-label testosterone gel (I monitor my hormone levels very closely with regular blood tests, and make sure my testosterone sachets are branded and not from some dodgy online pharmacy). It took me a while to find the dose that worked for me, but now I love it, and I’m sure it’s played a big role in my recent decrease in biological age (along with eating healthy, losing about 20 pounds, finding joy, and everything else). At first I was worried that testosterone would harm my heart health or affect my cholesterol levels, but I’m glad everything seems to be going well.

Joy is a key component of my longevity

I hope that more efforts will be made to measure how happiness and optimism can help change our lives and extend our lives. pregnancy — It can temporarily accelerate biological aging, making you happier and more Optimistic people tend to live longer.

Scientific studies of flies, worms, and rats may not give us better insight into how happiness, purpose, and joy affect human health. I look forward to seeing how we can study this better in humans and gather biological age data that will reveal simple, low-cost things we can all do to live more rewarding, and of course longer, lives.

I know longevity Blue Zone It’s gotten a lot of attention as a marker of healthy aging, and many of the techniques recommended by its proponents make sense, but I’d like to see more solid scientific data to show us what we can do in the future to make the most of our days in relatively cheap and easy ways.

It’s amazing what an impact all the basics like nutrition, fitness, purpose and joy can have. I don’t have IV blood transfusions, stem cell therapy or any other expensive biohacking. I do all this at a very low cost. I firmly believe that hope and happiness work better than any medicine when it comes to improving biological aging. This is just my opinion so far, but based on my own experience.