How Fast Are You Aging?

From a biological perspective, we all age at different rates. Some of it is genetics and some of it is lifestyle and environment, dating back to childhood factors.
After seeing these variables at work in the lives of 1,000 life-long study participants in Dunedin, New Zealand, Duke researchers Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt have invented their own 'pace of aging' measure. Their new tool is based on the epigenetic markers of aging as a way to clinically measure the pace of biological aging.
Their pace of aging test has been licensed to a company called TruDiagnostics. trudiagnostic.com/dunedinpoam/
Video by Véronique Koch
Additional image by Christoph Bock, Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
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[@georgegrubbs2966]

Any bias in the longitudinal study given that the sample was drawn from a specific geographical location?

[@Hardlink360]

Thanks for this

[@sunjamrblues]

Greetings from a fellow scientist in NZ. Has your study of this cohort led you to change any of your personal habits? Diet? Exercise? I have noticed that at their 45th birthday, some looked 70 and others looked 30.