When does the body really start aging? The answer may surprise you.

When does the body really start aging? The answer may surprise you.

USA Today, Aug. 4, 2025

“Starting at 45 to 50, you could gain as much as 10 years of healthy life and this study just shows the truth of that at a cellular level,” UTMB’s Dr. Thomas Blackwell tells USA Today in his comments about a Chinese Academy of Sciences study on proteins taken from about 70 people ages 14 to 68.