True Age Test
£550.00
While your chronological age will always progress at a fixed rate, biological age can show a summary of how a person’s lifestyle choices and behaviours are affecting their body.
Being 70 years old is itself not an accurate predictor of health and disease risk, because everyone is ageing a bit differently, on a biological level. Lifestyle, genetic predispositions, and experiences all affect cellular processes, those things also affect ageing. This molecular process of ageing could be very slow, or it could progress rapidly. Everyone’s rate of ageing is unique to them, customised by their rich and complex lives. Ageing can appear outwardly in skin condition and hair colour, and inwardly with increased frailty, lower immune response, and the loss of things like bone density and motor skills.
Biological Age is how rapidly your body is ageing. Chronological Age is how many candles are on your birthday cake, or how many years you've been on this earth. While Chronological Age is just a number that shows the passage of time, Biological Age reflects your body's current health. Most outward signs of ageing and age-related diseases are caused by cells losing function when their genes stop regulating them appropriately. By slowing down your Biological Ageing, you're keeping genes activated that tell your cells to act younger. Younger cells heal faster and do their jobs more efficiently, regardless of how many birthday candles you have.
What influences Biological Aging?
Biological Age consists of what you inherited from your parents, what you developed during your childhood, and everyday lifestyle influences like sleep, stress, smoking, nutrition, exercise habits, and much more.
Since over half of your DNA Methylation is changeable, you can significantly change your Biological Age to increase both your lifespan and your long-term quality of life as it relates to your health.
Is TruAge like a DNA test?
A regular DNA test looks at what genes you have.
TruAge looks at what genes are expressed.
Because TruAge measures epigenetics (changes in gene expression in response to outside influences), it provides more information than your typical mainstream DNA tests.
While a DNA test can say you have genes that could give you a predisposition to developing certain diseases, Epigenetic tests like TruAge can look at how your lifestyle has increased or decreased the influence of that predisposition. Just having the genes isn't enough. Those genes must be expressed in a particular way to encourage diseases.
You will be sent a test kit for self-collection (dried blood spot sample).
This test requires no special diet prior to collection.