Simple blood test can tell your age?

In a recently published study in Scientific Reports, scientists from Uppsala University have developed a simple blood test technology that can help reveal the body’s biological age, that is can tell your age.

Professor UIf Gyllensten pointed out that with the popularity of new technologies, the future will easily bring incentive medical interventions or help change the lifestyle of patients and monitor the effect. As the aging of our body and different organs, lifestyle factors such as smoking and stress will affect the body’s molecular processes and the aging rate.

Today, herein researchers have developed a simple blood detection technology that can help reveal how lifestyle affects our body’s aging. The researchers analyzed the level of various proteins in the blood sample form 1,000 individuals. By analyzing the protein levels can help evaluate the body’s biological age, weight, height and hip. Protein expression in the blood can be affected by a series of lifestyles and certain factors will accelerate the aging of the body, while other factors will slow the aging processes.

The researchers said, “We found smoking, high BMI and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages to increase the predicted chronological age by 2-6 years, while consumption of fatty fish, drinking moderate amounts of coffee and exercising reduced the predicted age by approximately the same amount.” Thus, this method can be applied to dried blood spots and my be useful in forensic medicine to provide basic anthropometrical measures for an individual based on a biological evidence.