I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.
People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.
Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.
The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
It will be useful for you to know your biological age and maybe to change your lifestyle habits if you find you have short telomeres.
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
