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Biological longevity

Your Organs Are Aging On Different Timelines, Study Suggests

A new imaging method found that different organs in the body age on their own separate timelines instead of declining at one steady rate. Blood vessels show their fastest structural changes in the 30s, while the uterus and vagina stay stable until the 50s. The ovary, digestive tract, and male reproductive organs each go through two separate waves of accelerated aging, one in the 30s and another around the 50s. Researchers also linked a gene called SIRT6 to faster artery aging and found that colon and esophagus aging predicted faster prostate aging too. ….[READ]

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