Be Well: How Blood Tests Can Determine Your Body's Biological Age
What is age? Technically speaking, age determines how long a person or thing has existed but there a blood test that could prove your birthdate to be just that -- a date. Dr. Jeremy Walker, Opt health physician, joined Cheddar News to talk about how blood tests can determine someone's biological age. In some cases, the biological age can be older or younger based on how the organ systems are aging.
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