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Epigenetic clock expert Steve Horvath says don't waste your money on expensive biological age tests.Instead, he offers four simple & cheap things you can do to lower your biological age, right now.In the future, doctors could use biological age tests to prescribe novel longevity treatments...
More than a decade later, there are a whole crop of longevity companies who'll promise to measure your biological age through spit or blood analyses based on Horvath's discovery...
But Horvath who now works as a principal investigator at the secretive longevity startup Altos Labs said consumers should, for now, take all of these flashy DNA-based biological age estimates in stride...
Biological age tests simply measure how your health stacks up to your lived years today, and therefore don't accurately predict your future health, many decades away...
But Horvath hopes that some day, doctors might be able to order up a biological age test for their patients, and then recommend anti-aging pills, or other yet-to-be-invented interventions, to help improve longevity and decrease biological age...
