{"id":108684,"date":"2025-09-02T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/108684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:17:09","slug":"i-had-my-biological-age-tested-its-10-years-older-than-my-actual-age-heres-how-i-am-going-to-lower-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/108684\/","title":{"rendered":"I had my biological age tested \u2013 it\u2019s 10 years older than my actual age. Here\u2019s how I am going to lower it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Longevity testing \u2013 based on assessing how efficiently the heart, lungs and muscles utilise oxygen \u2013 offers vital insights into a person\u2019s long-term health\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chrissie Russell: \u2018I\u2019m fretting that maybe everything would have been different if I\u2019d managed that final two minutes on the treadmill.\u2019 Photo: \u00a9 Presseye\/Stephen Hamilton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c3db1855-1643-4bab-8a63-2ed8c8a490fe.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chrissie Russell: \u2018I\u2019m fretting that maybe everything would have been different if I\u2019d managed that final two minutes on the treadmill.\u2019 Photo: \u00a9 Presseye\/Stephen Hamilton<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We\u2019re only seven minutes in, and I already want to rip the mask from my face and stagger away from the treadmill. With hindsight, this should have been my first alarm bell that perhaps my biological age, currently being calculated by the treadmill and mask combo, might not be as good as I had hoped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At 13 minutes, and with two minutes to go, jogging at a pace many would no doubt find sedate, and at an incline more befitting of the trolley ramp at Tesco than any summit hike, I hit my wall and have to stop, hoping that whatever data has been collected thus far will suffice when calculating my VO2 max score and its all-important predictions for my longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longevity testing \u2013 based on assessing how efficiently the heart, lungs and muscles utilise oxygen \u2013 offers vital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,12770,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-108684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}