{"id":213412,"date":"2025-05-07T05:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-old-are-you-really-tool-measures-aging-from-the-inside-out"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:07:26","slug":"how-old-are-you-really-tool-measures-aging-from-the-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-old-are-you-really-tool-measures-aging-from-the-inside-out","title":{"rendered":"How old are you, really? Tool measures aging from the inside out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-old-are-you-really-tool-measures-aging-from-the-inside-out2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new health-assessment method, called the Health Octo Tool, uses eight measures drawn from physical exams and routine lab tests to calculate a person\u2019s biological age.<\/p>\n<p>The tool may predict an individual\u2019s risk of disability and death more accurately than existing health predictors.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Shabnam Salimi from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwmedicine.org\/school-of-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Washington School of Medicine<\/a>, believes the tool could uncover new factors that shape the aging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/defying-time-three-ways-to-slow-biological-aging\/\">process<\/a> and help design interventions to extend lifespan. Salimi is a physician-scientist and acting instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology &amp; Pain Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new health-assessment method, called the Health Octo Tool, uses eight measures drawn from physical exams and routine lab tests to calculate a person\u2019s biological age. The tool may predict an individual\u2019s risk of disability and death more accurately than existing health predictors. The research team, led by Shabnam Salimi from the University of Washington [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}