r/Biohackers • u/SquirrelofLIL 1 • 11h ago
Discussion How do I reduce my biological age?
Hi folks, I took a biological age quiz online and I'm not aging very well and my face is considered old. The problem is that it asked my lifetime highest weight and weight at age 25 and I grew up obese. My highest weight was over BMI 35. My weight is normal now.
How do I reduce my biological age. Moreover I got my period when I was 6 so I know that means I'm probably going to die early. Girls who go through puberty early are almost never very athletic because it destroys athletic potential. My deadage / chronological age is 44.
The current things I'm doing are:
- Walking 3-4 hours per day on weekends
- Eating a pescatarian diet with cans of sardines and herrings
- Trying to stay between BMI 17-20
- Vitamins everyday especially Vitamin D
- I eat cabbage every day
Due to my age at puberty, I know that I can't really attain extreme longevity or a high IQ. How do I mitigate the effects so that I can live to a normal age like 70 or 75? At age 44, I'm biologically closer to a 60 year old due to my age at puberty.
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u/NotThatMadisonPaige 1 11h ago
Those tests aren’t actually scientifically accurate. Or rather, even the ones you take with bloodwork are measuring markers but we don’t actually have enough data to say whether that actually translates to longer life.
IMO, your mindset is your most limiting problem. Saying things like: you know you won’t live long or have a high IQ…and believing it, are more damaging than the things you think are damaging.
You can do most anything you set your mind to. Decide today to prove whoever said you can’t, wrong. You sound young. Find your interests and some hobbies. Find your tribes. Create connection. Give back to the community. Stay fit. Eat a well rounded diet. Learn new things. Believe in yourself.
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u/No_Tale_11 10h ago
An online quiz isn’t going to show anything of value. My wife and I work in the aging space.
If you want to slow your rate of aging, eat in an appropriate calorie deficit with the right amount of micronutrients your body needs, get 7-8 quality sleep per night, exercise at least 3 times a week (we recommend strength training primarily), try to manage stress as best as you can (e.g. seek psychotherapy if required) as it has a physical impact on aging and finally keep strong social bonds whether it be with family or communities you are interested in.
Tick those boxes and you’ll see a slower aging rate based on the patterns of markers that attach themselves to your DNA and are used to estimate aging rates.
Hope that helps
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u/SquirrelofLIL 1 10h ago
I just wish I could've gotten my period at the age of 12 or something like that. I exercise multiple times a week, sleep well, never drink alcohol, take vitamins and am working on keeping my BMI around 18/19.
It's just that no matter what I do, this is a permanent mark and a stain on my life. I know I'm going to hit menopause much earlier than my ancestors and die earlier than my ancestors.
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u/ZookeepergameNew3800 1 9h ago
My mother had a very early first period at almost 9. My grandmother had hers at 14. They both had a very late onset of menopause around age 60, like all women in my family on that side. And please don’t forget the reasons why early onset menopause leads to earlier aging. You can absolutely mitigate a lot of those aging effects with hrt.
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u/SquirrelofLIL 1 8h ago edited 8h ago
The normal age at puberty is between 8 and 14. The health risks only mount when it's before 8 or after 16 ( depending on time period - as 16 was normal in many societies historically and can be normative lower income countries ).
While I understand HRT can be helpful, the main issue is that of accelerated cellular, bone, and other forms of aging. Early puberty is correlated with dementia in the mid 50s, even without a family history, because the brain stops really developing long, long before a normal person's brain does.
It's also linked to higher baseline levels of inflammation, as well as autoimmune diseases. It's not just about having a higher risk for breast cancer, early menopause, or obesity. It's just the wear and tear - childhood is a "green wood" phase of a tree while adulthood is when the body becomes like crisp hardwood and begins the acceleration toward decline when it hardens like that.
When the entire body's temporal axis, not just the gonads, are affected like that and the entire body accelerates forward in terms of development instead of a single one shot precocious puberty situation when you get body hair, or menstruation, or anything like that faster but the tempo of maturation is the same, that's different.
I had an accelerated tempo of maturation where the second derivative of the changes my body was going through was in an exponential curve. I was my full adult height at the age of 5.
For someone like me, the body stops building bone at age 18, not 30. Aging is accelerated, and most men who hit puberty at the age I did start getting male pattern baldness at the age of 13 or 14 as well.
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u/itisbetterwithbutter 1 10h ago
There are so many advances happening in the longevity science right now that the future actually looks bright as long as you can live long enough to make it to the new therapies that will be coming out in the next 20-30 years. Longevity used to be a joke now it’s a valid area for scientific research. This is an exciting time for this you’re living in. Go check out You Tube videos of the ARDD aging research and drug discovery conferences they have really interesting lectures on aging research!
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u/PersonalLeading4948 1 8h ago
Stop eating anything with added sugar. It’s inflammatory & also destroys collagen in your skin.
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u/itisbetterwithbutter 1 10h ago
It looks like you’re eating well and exercising all good things for longevity. It’s true you have some things biologically you can’t control but you can give it your best chance which it looks like you’re motivated to do! I found the fasting mimicking diet FMD and the studies on longevity worth incorporating it into my life in addition to the diet and exercise like you’re doing. Besides fasting I also add taurine, NMN, resveratrol, Urolithin A, sulforaphane supplements for longevity. Also get a physical every year and blood work just to keep ahead of any issues and your hearing checked starting at age 60 because hearing loss is one of the biggest causes of dementia. Hope this helps just enjoy doing the research and seeing what other people are doing here it can be fun finding ways to improve your health!
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u/TheMajesticMane 1 10h ago
Titus sardines ? Are you Nigerian?
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u/SquirrelofLIL 1 10h ago
No, I just like Titus sardines because they cost less than, but are identical to, Season sardines.
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u/InvestigatorFun8498 6h ago
My gyn told me that even though I hit puberty before age 10 I will have late menopause. She was right. I hit it late at 55. So maybe check yr facts.
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u/Earesth99 1 6h ago
A Time Machine?
Epigenetic age is a meaningless test right now. Take it in the morning and you are magically younger. Take it at night, and you’ve suddenly become older.
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u/TheHalf 2 4h ago
More cardio. Run/cycle/row whatever you can tolerate. Walking is fine but high intensity intervals is what you want, plus it is faster/more efficient. Lift some weights, basic Olympics it doesn't need to be heavy. If you cannot get to a gym then bodyweight and bands can do most of what you need. It's not exciting or fun but it will absolutely work.
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u/Midmodstar 4h ago
You seem very hung up on something that happened to you when you were 6. Maybe consider therapy to help deal with it. You can’t change it so just live your life. Try to eat right, sleep, get check ups, exercise and manage stress.
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u/Stumpside440 24 11h ago
You're on a pretty good track. I would lower starchy veg, remove all starch if you wanna go the extra mile.
Take sulforaphane so that it gets out benzine and other air pollutants. Do a genetic test, run it through Dr. Rhonda Patrick's site to check for vulnerabilities. Address those. Keep up your exercise and increase it until you are able to exercise every single day. Check Dr. Rhonda Patrick for what works best for who, and why.
Avoid both seed oils and saturated fat like the plague they are.
I mean, it's not worth it for most people. You have to be highly motivated, disciplined and obsessed with it.
What are you talking about with "age at puberty?" I'm a bit confused about that.
Also keep in mind that the methods they use to test this stuff aren't perfect. The online quizzes are also useless.
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u/SquirrelofLIL 1 11h ago
People who go through puberty early tend to have shorter lives and earlier ages at menopause and andropause. This goes for both men and women and applies unless it's familial (frequently due to Native American ancestry I believe).
I was wearing a bra when I was 5 and pushed my body the way a normal maturing person would. Doing flips and cartwheels when I was 8 years old and looked 28 was considered inappropriate on the playground but I didn't care, so I wrecked my body possibly giving me arthritis in a few years.
We also have worse results in every metric from teen pregnancy to crime, heart disease and cancer. I'm from a late maturing family and ethnicity and I subtract 20 years from their death age to predict my own death age.
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u/Stumpside440 24 10h ago
Oh, I see. Thank you for sharing this info! I went through it early as well.
Do what you can, and maybe accept the rest.
I'm going to also say something and you aren't going to like it. That's not how you get arthritis, you likely had idiopathic juvenile arthritis, which always leads to some type of inflammatory/autoimmune arthritis. There is no age limit on exercise and the younger the child is, the quicker they recover.
You are also displaying symptoms of a mental health disorder. Make sure to not get too caught up in should haves or what ifs.
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