An anti-aging researcher reveals why some people age faster than others

Aging is a multi-factorial process and no single intervention can stop it all.

You likely know someone who seems to age slowly, appearing years younger than their birth date suggests. And you likely have seen the opposite — someone whose body and mind seem much more ravaged by time than others. Why do some people seem to glide through their golden years, and others physiologically struggle in midlife?

Aging research doesn’t tend to be about finding the one cure that fixes all that may ail you in old age. Instead, the last decade or two of work points to aging as a multi-factorial process — and no single intervention can stop it all. FULL STORY from Inverse