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You know your favorite color, mine is blue, your favorite snack, mine is pizza bagels,
and you know your age...or do you?
VSAUCE!
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Wrong channel!
Hey there!
Welcome to Life Noggin!
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Are you sure you know how old you are?
I can trace my origin back to the exact moment the Creator made me, March 23rd 2013 at 5:27pm
and of course i incubated for year until my dad decided this whole idea wasn't stupid.
but figuring out your true age is a lot more complicated for you humans.
There’s your chronological age, which is how long you’ve been alive for and what
you use for birthday celebrations.
But there’s also your biological age, which is how old your body and cells actually are.
This reflects your health and can indicate your life expectancy, but it’s more difficult
to determine.
Biological age is a measure of how fast you’re aging by taking into account age-related changes
and damages that accrue inside your body as you get older.
The more changes and damages, the older your biological age.
Your biological age can be similar to your chronological age or remarkably different.
It depends on aspects of your lifestyle, like diet, stress, exercise and sleeping habits,
and living environment.
I realize that if you're a teenager almost all of those are bad.
but, In order to find out your biological age, scientists use biological markers, which
are often referred to as biomarkers.
Triangle Bob, stop sniffing the biomarkers!
Biomarkers are any characteristic of the body that you can measure, like blood pressure
or the results of an x-ray.
But there are certain ones related to the different processes that occur as you get
older that scientists can use to determine someone’s biological age.
One of them is telomere length.
Telomeres are found at the ends of your chromosomes,
but each time the cell divides, they shorten.
So an older cell has much shorter telomeres than a brand new one.
But this can be difficult to measure.
Another age-related biomarker is DNA methylation, also known as your epigenetic clock.,
While a genetic change alters your DNA and affects what chemicals your genes produce,
an epigenetic change determines whether or not a gene is turned on.
This can be caused by your lifestyle.
One way epigenetic changes happen is by DNA methylation.
This is a process where methyl molecules are added to your DNA, which turns the genes on
or off.
As you age, certain genes become methylated that would be better off not, while other
genes lose their methyl groups that would be better suited with them.
This results in things like gray hair, wrinkles, and joint pain.
Everything a 30 year old looks forward to!
Studies have found that patterns of DNA methylation,
which can be measured from a blood sample,
accurately predicted chronological age.
And many researchers and companies have used this method to develop their own epigenetic
clock or wellness test where you can discover exactly how old you are.
At the very least, it could be an excuse to have another party!
Happy 2,785th birthday Triangle Bob!
(his body's been through a lot!)
So, my question to you, the beautiful person watching, how old do you feel?
Leave some funny or honest answers in the comments below now!
I’ll respond to some!
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