Sentences with phrase «mean biological ageing»

I do not mean biological ageing — just look at Ferguson still winning titles when far older than Wenger — in Wenger's case I am referring to the deterioration in his skills as a manager.)

Not exact matches

She's interested in an «ethic of responsible parenthood,» which sounds good on surface but borders on elitism once you start exploring what that may mean: George Lucas adopted two children as a single man and I will bet that Sawhill would not insist that he have a partner first and wait until they are «ready to be parents» — he was wealthy enough to hire surrogate moms until he married again and, last year, became a biological dad at age 69.

A biological age of 40, for example, meant that person was aging at a rate of 1.2 years per year over the 12 years the study examined.

That means that some participants» biological age was more than 20 years older than their birth certificates indicated.

RPB - supported researchers have discovered a biological marker for wet age - related macular degeneration (AMD) that shows strong potential as a means for both early detection and preventive treatment.

«Our study showed that alcoholic patients have a shortened telomere length, which means that heavy drinking causes biological aging at a cellular level,» Yamaki said.

In other words, if you ignore inflammatory triggers, your biological age will rapidly outpace your chronological age... meaning, you will be physically older than your years.

In addition research has shown that those individuals that have higher levels of EPA and DHA (found in cold water fish), have a shorter rate of telomere shortening, which is the biological aging marker, so this means the aging process is slowed down.

Telomere length is arguably the best marker of biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).

Just as the number on the bathroom scale isn't always a simple reflection of calories consumed vs. calories burned, the number of years you've lived isn't always a reflection of your biological age (meaning the age of your cells).

Existential psychotherapy is concerned mainly with the individual's ability to preserve a sense of meaning and purpose throughout the lifespan in the face of immutable biological limitations of a mortal existence (ie ageing, death) and issues associated with human self awareness (ultimate aloneness, having sole responsibility for our actions, choices and freedom).

Participants (mean age = 31, SD = 8) were predominantly female (87 %), either white (55 %) or African - American (42 %), and biological parents (88 %) of the target children.

In this study, non-genetic biological and psychosocial risk factors for ADHD symptom severity and comorbid disorders were assessed in 275 children with ADHD, aged 5 — 13 years, mean age 9.7 (SD 1.9).