![]() ![]() That’s because it is not chronological time that drives the development of disease, but rather the biological changes taking place among the molecules and cells in our bodies. It is more informative than chronological age for predicting risk of disease or death. I saw the resources it takes to care for older adults and wondered if there was a possibility to delay that need. My mother, who works on ageing policy, also influenced me. Most kids aren’t pondering their parents’ mortality early on, but I was already consumed with the fear that he might not be around. He was 54 when I was born and people always assumed he was my grandfather. What got you interested in the science of biological ageing? This June she will join Altos Labs, a new $3bn (£2.2bn) anti-ageing biotech startup whose funders are said to include Jeff Bezos. Levine, 37, is an assistant professor of pathology and epidemiology at Yale University’s school of medicine. In her new book, True Age, she argues that we should regularly measure our own biological age – giving us information we could use to monitor, and even gain control over, our own individual ageing process. ![]() ![]() Dr Morgan Levine designs tools that measure the latter. I t can be said we have two ages: a fixed chronological age based on when we were born and a malleable biological age – the age at which our body is functioning, which can be affected by our lifestyle choices. ![]()
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