The Two Ages When You’ll Start Feeling Older, According to Science
How your body’s aging shifts dramatically in your 40s and 60s
When it comes to aging, people like to fall back on vague but positive aphorisms like “age is only a number.”
The joke may be on them when they find out that scientists have recently found there are in fact two numbers — two ages — at which you might notice (and feel) your aging is accelerating.
If you’re in your late thirties or your late fifties, beware. Science has determined the two ages when you’re going to start feeling older to be 44 and 60.
Why 44 and 60?
Researchers at Stanford Medicine recently announced their finding that the human body doesn’t age at a “steady pace.” Rather, they suggested, the molecules in our bodies undergo “rapid shifts” in aging around the (average) ages of 44 and 60.
The researchers were nothing if not thorough. They examined different molecules in people between the ages of 25 and 75, as well as the microbes we live with (“the bacteria, viruses and fungi that live inside us and on our skin”). In all, they examined more than 135,000 such molecules and microbes.
