You can’t influence the day you were born – but you can always take action to affect your biological age for better or for worse. The human body and mind is a fantastic piece of engineering, and so complicated and adaptable that the reality is we don’t fully understand how it works. This may be an extreme example, but I hope it hammers home the point.ĭon’t be defined by your birth date or by what society expects of you based on that number. For example, you might be a 74-year-old marathon runner who is as fit (if not fitter) than the average 25-year-old. In simple terms, it ignores the calendar date and focuses on your individual traits. However, if we look only at this single number, we are potentially selling ourselves short.īiological age considers your current human performance level. And who doesn’t want to celebrate and sing “Happy Birthday” each year? After all, we want to know how many individuals of a particular generation are alive in our society. When we measure our age based on the calendar, we are determining how old we are using our chronological age. That’s why we should always consider an individual’s biological age when setting goals. But, when we do this, we are entirely negating individual variation. In my experience, too many of us are told that an 80-year old should or shouldn’t be able to do certain things. However, we all age at different rates, and there is a lot of individual variation. I’m not arguing about the science there is an ageing process that we all need to be aware of.
CHRONOLOGICAL AGE VS.BIOLOGICAL AGE HOW TO
We make decisions every day of our lives about what we eat, how much to sleep, how to respond to different situations and stress, and how much we exercise. Behavioural factors: The one we have ultimate control over.For example, if you work in a hazardous environment, do you have access to appropriate protective gear? Environmental factors: The one we have some control over.The starting point: The greater physical and cognitive capacity we develop to start with, the more wiggle room there is to lose some.However, everyone experiences this decline at different rates. After this, it’s a long, slow decline that we all experience. There is a general consensus that we reach our peak human condition in our third decade of life, both physically and cognitively. The ageing process is well established in human biological science. It’s something we can’t escape, and it happens to all of us. It overlooks several factors that indicate how ‘old’ we actually are. But the number on our birth certificate tells us only when we were born. It’s easy for us to say we’re 90 years old and therefore old, or 18 years old and therefore young. Human beings by nature like numbers, and we like simple explanations for what are in fact complex calculations. Well, technically, yes going by the calendar I am 64 years old. If I was born on 1st January, 1958, and we are now in 2022, then I am 64 years old. And, on the surface, the answer is simple: It’s one of the first questions we learn to ask in school.
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