{"id":10720,"date":"2025-07-20T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/10720\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T15:03:08","slug":"your-organs-have-their-own-age-and-it-may-predict-health-risks-better-than-your-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/10720\/","title":{"rendered":"Your organs have their own age \u2013 and it may predict health risks better than your birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve always thought your birthday was the best way to define how old you are<\/a>, think again.<\/p>\n

Your organs, it turns out, are aging on their own schedules.<\/p>\n

A growing body of scientific research is shifting focus from chronological age to biological age<\/a>, where your body\u2019s roughly 30 trillion cells, tissues and organs each have their own \u201cclocks\u201d that can tick at different speeds.<\/p>\n

According to a groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published last week in Nature Medicine, Stanford University<\/a> researchers found that an organ that is substantially \u201colder\u201d than a person\u2019s actual age is at greater risk of disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Researchers tracked this hidden timeline by analyzing thousands of proteins flowing through our blood.<\/p>\n

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The body\u2019s cells, tissues and organs all have different \u2018clocks\u2019 ticking at different speeds (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The body\u2019s cells, tissues and organs all have different \u2018clocks\u2019 ticking at different speeds (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this indicator, we can assess the age of an organ today and predict the odds of your getting a disease associated with that organ 10 years late,\u201d Tony Wyss-Coray, a professor of neurology and neurological sciences at the university\u2019s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Take the brain, for example: an older one increases your risk of death by about 182 percent within the next 15 years, compared with people whose brains are aging normally, researchers found.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, those with brains biologically younger than their chronological age are believed to live longer.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s authors concluded that having an older brain increased the risk of dementia threefold, while those with youthful brains have just a quarter of the usual risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brain is the gatekeeper of longevity,\u201d Wyss-Coray said. \u201cIf you\u2019ve got an old brain, you have an increased likelihood of mortality.\u201d<\/p>\n

An older biological heart age was linked to a higher risk of atrial fibrillation and heart failure, while aging lungs signaled an increased likelihood of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).<\/p>\n

While your chronological age only goes up, the good news is that biological age can be slowed, paused or even reversed.<\/p>\n

Forty-year-old soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has an estimated biological age of just under 29, according to data from the health tech brand Whoop.<\/p>\n

\"Bryan<\/p>\n

Bryan Johnson has documented his journey to reverse his biological age to that of a teenager (Dustin Giallanza)<\/p>\n

Bryan Johnson has documented his journey to reverse his biological age to that of a teenager (Dustin Giallanza)<\/p>\n

Kim Kardashian may be blowing out 44 candles on her next birthday but her biological age came in nearly a decade younger, according to results from an epigenetic clock test taken on The Kardashians last year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bryan Johnson<\/a>, 47, the anti-aging tech guru and \u201cbiohacker,\u201d has documented his bizarre journey in an attempt to reverse his biological age to that of a teenager.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to be into biohacking to change your organ\u2019s age \u2014 they can shift depending on a variety of factors, including your genes, how much you move, what you eat, your sleep habits and how you manage stress.<\/p>\n

Regular exercise, good nutrition and avoiding harmful habits like smoking all contribute to younger organ age and better health outcomes, according to Stanford University\u2019s research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve always thought your birthday was the best way to define how old you are, think again.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10533,49,48,84,10534,993,10532],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-biological-age","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-organs","tag-scientific-research","tag-stanford-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}