What kind of tests do you run with the blood? Is it a telomer test?
Glycans are post translational modifications of proteins (they change how we work beyond genetics, epigenetics, incorporating the environment)
Telomere are a good measure of aging of a single cell but a very poor marker of aging of an organism (as we trillions of cells and all of them have different ages)
Of course, if you have time I would recommend this 15 min lecture on the science behind GlycanAge https://youtu.be/Q19vJ-npzFA
There was a recent independent study that looked at many different ways of measuring biological aging (although it didn’t look at telomeres) and glycans were shown to be the most relevant to general systemic aging and the most predictive of future health outcomes. Study is here https://www.aging-us.com/article/203847/text
Telomere are a good measure of aging of a single cell but a very poor marker of aging of an organism (as we trillions of cells and all of them have different ages)
Of course, if you have time I would recommend this 15 min lecture on the science behind GlycanAge https://youtu.be/Q19vJ-npzFA
There was a recent independent study that looked at many different ways of measuring biological aging (although it didn’t look at telomeres) and glycans were shown to be the most relevant to general systemic aging and the most predictive of future health outcomes. Study is here https://www.aging-us.com/article/203847/text
Our first study from back in 2013 talked about the difference between telomere clocks and glycan clocks, where only 20-25% of the deviation from chronological age by telomeres could be explained by known health traits, while over 70% of deviation from chrono age by glycan clocks can be explained by known health traits