Explaining Chronological Age and Biological Age

QUESTION: Would you explain chronological age, biological age, and their significance ?

ANSWER: Chronological age is simply your age in years. Biological age is your age at a cellular level. These 2 numbers are not necessarily the same. Lifestyle factors such as nutrition/ food choices, exercise, nutritional supplementation, antioxidant status, and stress among others impact biological age. So, how you manage your life and the choices you make  on a daily basis can either accelerate or slow down your biological aging process  in  varying degrees. All this boils down to quality of life. 

 Examples of high chronological age with corresponding low biological age are  seen in the people of longevity hot spots around the globe. Among these are Okinawa Japan, Nicoya Costa Rica, and Sardinia Italy.  In these places  researchers find an unusually high number of centenarians. What researchers find worthy of study is that they have the biomarkers of people much younger than their years. 

Understanding the difference between chronological age and biological age is significant because once it’s understood that individuals can influence the process by choices they make on a daily basis they are more likely to initiate change.

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