The results offer important new insights into what happens as we age. For example, the team suggests that the biological process of aging is not constant and seems to accelerate periodically and that the biggest explosions occur, on average, around 34, 60 and 78 years of age. With age, bones tend to reduce in size and density, weakening them and making them more susceptible to fractures. You might even get a little shorter.
Muscles generally lose strength, endurance, and flexibility, factors that can affect coordination, stability, and balance. In the study, 954 people born in 1972 or 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand, agreed to participate in a study that followed them from age 26 to 38. Some people were biologically older and aged faster than others, despite having the same chronological age. Interestingly, when the system failed to predict an age that was too young, the subject was usually very healthy for his age. While some people really were biologically older than they are, the good news is that some were younger than their chronological age and were aging more slowly than they should.
While these protein levels tend to remain relatively constant, the researchers found that large changes occurred in the readings of multiple proteins in early adulthood (3 years), in late middle age (60 years) and in old age (7 years).
