The Surprising Link Between Vitality and Accelerated Aging

So in thinking about different portions of that developmental arc, the early portion

of infancy and especially puberty seem like especially rapid stages of aging, and I know we normally

look at babies and children and kids in puberty and we think, "Oh,

they're so vital. They're so young." And yet, the way you describe these changes in

the epigenome and the way you have framed aging as a disease leads me to ask,

are periods of in- of immense vitality the same periods when we're aging faster?

Yes. Really good question. So those chemicals we can measure, uh,

it's, it's also known as the Horvath clock. It's the biological clock.