Description
- Want healthy aging? Were the experts. Start your journey by understanding your biological age, which defines how well your body is aging and is a measure of how old your body seems. Unlike the number of years youve been on this planet, you can modify your biological age! Based on the most precise technology available, according to Nature Aging, Index is an aging test that helps you understand how quickly youve been aging and how you can potentially slow your rate of aging.
- Precision and reliability are significant challenges for measuring biological age at the individual level. To develop the most precise and reliable test, Elysium partnered with Morgan Levine, Ph.D., of Yale Universitya leading epigenetics researcher. Index provides science-backed lifestyle recommendations that may slow your rate of aging. Plus, Index now includes system agesthe biological age of nine different essential areas in your body, so you know what to focus on.
- From the comfort of your home, collect a saliva sample with our easy-to-use kit, and mail it back to us. We calculate your biological age and system ages by examining sites on your DNA where methylation has taken place. After about 6 weeks, youll get your biological age, cumulative rate of aging, system age scores the biological age of nine different systems, including brain, heart, metabolic, and immuneand evidence-based lifestyle recommendations you can use to adopt healthier habits.
- Index is based on the most precise technology available, according to Nature Aging: When you take other biological age tests more than once, your results might differ by as much as 9 years! Index ensures minimal variability: as little as 1 year. Index is also the first biological age test to provide the ages of 9 different systems in your body, from brain to heart, so you can make better decisions about which areas to focus on in the future.
- Goop reported on Index that: I was impressed by the test itself. The research behind it is complex and well researched, and the results it delivers are simple, straightforward, and easy for just about anyone to understand. Weve also been covered in Outside Magazine, Forbes, Crunchbase, and AARP, and Good Housekeeping writes that Index can provide real motivation to make positive changes in your lifestyle.