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More Than 4,000 Blood Tests Suggest Our Bodies Age in 3 Distinct Shifts - ScienceAlert
Apr 06, 2021 47 secs

The team analyzed data from the blood plasma of 4,263 people aged 18 to 95, looking at the levels of around 3,000 different proteins moving through these biological systems, and acting as a snapshot of what's going on in the body: of those, 1,379 were found to vary with age.

Why and how this is happening isn't clear yet; but if the proteins can be traced back to their sources, it could enable a doctor to, for example, warn you that your liver is aging faster than the average person's.

"But it hasn't been appreciated that so many different proteins' levels – roughly a third of all the ones we looked at – change markedly with advancing age.".

These are still early findings – the researchers say any clinical applications could still be five to 10 years off – and it's going to take a lot more work to figure out how all of these proteins are markers for aging, and whether or not they actually contribute to it.

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