- Doctor!
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Curly and I are getting the telomere testing done.
This is a scientific test that tells you
how old your body biologically thinks it is.
- I'm super excited to just see, like,
how my body's doing on the inside
'cause I put it through a lot.
I've been drinking and smoking weed
since I was, like, 15 years old.
- I'm 27.
However,
I have done a lot of living.
- I've had three years of living a healthier lifestyle
where I don't drink, I don't smoke cigarettes,
and I actually go to the gym and I exercise
and I eat healthy so I just wanna see,
like, how are we doing, girl?
How are we doing in here?
- Welcome to Rejuvalife Vitality Institute.
We're gonna talk about the telomere test.
A telomere is the nub at the end of your chromosome.
Every one of your cells in your body
can only divide a certain number of times,
and every time your cell divides,
it shortens the length of the nub until when
the nub no longer exists the cell dies.
Aging is really all about the number
of cells over time that die.
Hi, I'm Doctor Berger.
- Nice to meet you.
- There's a difference between the chronological age,
the age that you are because of your birthday,
and your biological age.
How old are your cells?
Nutrition, movement, stress, and sleep;
those four things are so hugely impactful.
- Okay, so who do you think's gonna be older
between the two of us because you partied more than me,
but you've also spent the last two years
moving the needle back.
I haven't changed, I actually had Taco Bell
on the way over here, and I still drink a lot.
- What if I'm the older one?
- What if they say I'm, like, 13?
- What if I'm, like, 104?
- Dude, honestly it could go either way here.
- There's always hope.
If your biological age is greater
than your chronological age,
you can do so much to bring it back.
- How do we get the test done, what happens?
- It's a blood test.
- I've never watched someone get their blood drawn before.
That was it?
Damn!
And now we wait.
- We've got the results.
You're on.
- Yes!
- So Curly, your test is very interesting.
Now, what this shows is, you see this little black dot?
Well, that's you, that's where you stand.
and actually the nice thing about where you stand is
that your estimated biological age is 30.6.
- Wow!
Way to go, that's your age.
You're literally, like, .1 month older than you should be.
After all that years of all that expletive.
- When we talked last time you told me that,
you know, you more recently have tried to
clean up your act, that's what you told me.
- Three years sober.
- Like, haven't done anything and I quit smoking
and I'm in the gym, like, four times a week.
- So that's really important.
And interesting because, of course,
the fact that you're exercising right now
and that you quit smoking and you stopped drinking
has really, I think, probably had an impact.
- You're actually bettering your life.
There's science showing it.
- Which brings us to Kelsey, so Kelsey--
- I'm 27 years old.
- Kelsey, you've been living a full life.
- Yeah.
- In more ways than one, self-admittedly.
Unfortunately your telomeres are not enjoying that so much.
- Oh, Curly, how old am I?
- Let us take a look at your situation.
So your dot is right here.
- [Curly] What does that mean?
- That means her biological age is 38.2.
- Doctor!
- So I hope that this becomes a bit of
a wake-up call for you.
- That's crazy.
It's basically saying I'm almost 40.
- You have to quit drinking because it's
shortening your lifespan.
- Oh, expletive.
- I hope this motivates you to refocus
because this is a clear indication
that, you know, you need to.
- I feel really bad about all that nutrition stuff, too.
I had fried chicken for lunch today.
I knew something like this was gonna happen eventually.
- Don't get me wrong, I miss cigarettes, I miss booze,
I miss, like, throwing some back and having a smoke,
but it's like--
- Not at the expense of my life.
- To better decisions, to better choices.
Check in with me in 40 years and see how I'm doing.
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