{"id":288640,"date":"2026-05-29T08:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:56:07","slug":"florida-is-becoming-a-hotbed-for-reversing-or-at-least-slowing-down-biological-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288640\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida is becoming a hotbed for reversing, or at least slowing down, biological age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jay Campbell, a Tampa author, says he has a biological age of about 30, while his chronological age is 55.<\/p>\n

Scientists have discovered that people\u2019s biological age, which is how old their cells, tissues and organs are, often differs from their chronological age, the number of years they have been alive.<\/p>\n

Campbell, co-founder of Biolongevity Labs, attributes his low biological age to a daily cocktail of 7 to 10 peptides for more than a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy lab work is the best it\u2019s ever been in my entire life. It\u2019s like I am getting younger cellularly and through my biomarkers. So, I know that these things do work,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, it\u2019s all within the context of living the correct lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

As researchers study ways to slow down or reverse a person\u2019s biological age, Florida is now considered a hotbed for clinics, treatments, trials and supplements.<\/p>\n

University of Miami researchers are studying biological age<\/a> to predict who\u2019s at risk for developing colon polyps, a known risk factor for colorectal cancer. Dr. John Lewis, a voluntary associate professor at the University of Miami, has led multiple clinical studies on cellular repair and biological aging. Lewis has looked at how a plant-based diet could reverse your biological age and whether certain supplements \u2014 including aloe polymannose \u2014 can help, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t just about \u2018good genes,\u2019 it\u2019s about cellular health that can be measured,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n

University of Florida researchers are pioneering the reversal of biological age <\/a>by specifically focusing on \u201cbrain age.\u201d Their studies have shown that lifestyle choices can cause the brain to age faster or slower than the body, and that healthy habits \u2014 including regular exercise \u2014 can make the brain appear up to eight years younger.<\/p>\n

At the same time, longevity clinics are popping up across the state, where patients can receive comprehensive assessments, peptides and other therapies aimed at slowing aging. These Florida clinics charge anywhere from a few hundred dollars to more than $150,000 a year for scans, customized treatments, and diets to identify health risks, track how fast your cells are aging, and build an optimization plan.<\/p>\n

For now, individuals can test their biological age with a commercial at-home blood or saliva test that costs $200 to $500. Different testing methods examine cellular, chemical or physical markers in your body and analyze them using certain biological-age clocks. But companies, researchers, and the federal government are racing to develop more accurate and reliable ways to measure biological age, including a possible test based on brain scans.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these things will tell us not only what our biological age is but why it is a certain level. That is what is going to be all the rage over the next three to five years,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n

Longevity researchers also are looking to use artificial intelligence to identify which biomarkers are most predictive of disease, and they are examining the potential of various drugs or therapies to delay aging \u2014 or even reverse it.<\/p>\n

Dr. Edward Schwartz, director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Miami Health System, said stress, poor sleep, poor nutrition, a sedentary lifestyle, and heavy alcohol use can contribute to a higher biological age. \u201cLifestyle issues are important factors in slowing down or speeding up the aging process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Every lifestyle intervention, medical therapy, or physical reset that successfully lowers your biological age is effectively buying you more time to enjoy life and move without pain. That concept is driving increased marketing of anti-aging supplements and extensive screenings in Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are interested in longevity,\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cWe want to live as long as we can, but we want to live healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jay Campbell, a Tampa author, says he has a biological age of about 30, while his chronological age…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122186,28,30,29,122187,122185,9724],"class_list":["post-288640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-biological-age","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jay-campbell","tag-john-lewis","tag-university-of-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}