The Speed of Aging

There's this concept of chronological age, which is when you and I left our mother's womb. And then there's an idea of biological age,. You can look at a baby's heart and looking at a 10 year old heart into an 80 year old heart. So my body is hundreds of different ages as we've measured my organs. In terms of my speed of aging, you can look at the patterns that your body produces that basically are tree rings. They tell you the speed of your aging. It's just as you get older, the aging damage accumulates faster because it's compounding upon itself.

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