Biomarkers of Aging

People who see you all the time won't notice changes; it will be those who see you less frequently who will ask "what's your secret?"

In order to document the improvement in your healthspan due to TA-65, we measure six clinical biomarkers of aging, all of which should only get worse as you age.

So, despite the gradual improvements that you might not recognize, the objective data will provide benchmarks for your anti-aging goals.

CNS vital signs

The nervous system deteriorates with age because the neural stem cells deteriorate with age. CNS Vital Signs is a test provided by the company of the same name that precisely measures your cognitive abilities: verbal and visual memory, reaction time, cognitive flexibility, and many others.

For the most accurate results, the test can be administered in all these languages:

Afrikaans – Arabic – Bengali – Bulgarian – Cebuano - Chinese Simplified (Malaysia) - Chinese Simplified (China) - Chinese Complex/Traditional – Croatian – Czech – Danish – Dutch – English US - English UK – Finnish – French - French (Canada) - German – Greek – Gujarati – Hebrew – Hindi – Hungarian – Ilocano - Indonesian – Italian – Japanese – Kannada – Korean – Latvian – Malay – Malay Chinese - Malayalam – Marathi – Norwegian – Polish - Portuguese (Brazil) - Portuguese (Portugal) - Punjabi - Romanian – Russian – Serbian – Sesotho - Spanish (Latin America) - Spanish (Mexico) - Spanish (Spain) – Swedish – Tagalog – Tamil – Telugu – Thai – Turkish – Ukrainian – Urdu – Xhosa – Zulu.

You will take the test in the comfort of our office and then receive a printout of your results at the follow-up consultation when all the results are in. Here is a sample report that is always compared with people of the same age group:

Heart and Circulation

The stem cells that form the blood vessels deteriorate with age, causing stiffness and high blood pressure (the compensation of your heart to get blood out to the body.)

Using state-of-the-art, non-invasive, pulse wave analysis, we can establish exactly how stiff your arteries are, how hard your heart is working to furnish blood to your body, and how efficient that process is.

If your arteries are stiff and your heart cannot pump enough blood, you will develop heart and kidney disease. The test is also an excellent way to evaluate any current blood pressure regime that you are currently taking.

Here is my result after 12 months of TA-65:

An efficient heart shows three traits:

1) low ejection duration (time the heart is contracting to pump blood out to the body)

2) low Aortic Augmentation Index (proportional to the stiffness of the arteries)

3) high Buckberg Index (aka the Subendecardial Viability Ratio, which measures how good the blood supply to the muscles of your heart is. A ratio under 140% is associated with old age, obesity, higher pulse rate, higher total cholesterol, higher trigliceride, higher fasting plasma glucose, and greater risk for heart attacks.)

Lungs

As the lung stem cells age, the capacity of your lungs and their explusive force deteriorates.

Here are my results after twelve months on TA-65:

Bone Health and Osteoporosis

As their stem cells age, the backbones can collapse like beer cans, causing loss of stature, curvature and occasionally, pain.

Exercise, certain medications, and Estrogen can all strengthen bone. 1200mg of Calcium and 600-800 IU of Vitamin D daily are recommended if dietary intake is not adequate.

Excess Vitamin D intake is not helpful and can actually cause osteoporosis and kidney stones.

Hip fractures are a leading cause of death and disability. A recent study showed that in the decade after a hip fracture, the risk of mortality is doubled for women and tripled for men as compared with their peers also 75 or older.

After TA-65 my bone density increased 3% despite not taking Vitamin D, calcium supplements, or exercising. And, I actually gained a half an inch in height.

Vision

As the stem cells of the eye age, vision deteriorates. We have abandoned the old Snellen "big E" chart, which was invented in 1862.

Instead, we will test your Contrast Sensitivity, which is a more precise measurement of vision that can help distinguish between types of visual impairments.