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The Science of Looking Younger, Longer | Episode 6

Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair

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The Rate of Your Nail Growth Is a Good Indicator of Aging

The rate of your nail growth is a really good indicator of how you're aging or not. It's all born from from 19 79, where they glued on these little measuring tapes onto people's nails and measured them over years. We now know for sure that the rate of nail growth decreases about half per year. And so i don't do that, but i do pay attention to whether my nails are slowing down in the growth or not. I don't because i bite my nails binos, a terrible habit. But i like to say now that i'm just engaging in atophagy, which is, you know, good for my life span, right? Takin that carro

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