Measurable, modifiable biological age at the organ and cell level is the most important advance yet in the science of human ageing.

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  Health optimisation has overshot: minimising a measured risk is not worth it if the cost is not having lived.

  Topol calls measurable, modifiable biological age at the organ and cell level the most important advance yet in the field. Hansson says health optimisation has overshot, and that minimising a measured risk is not worth it if the cost is not having lived. A better measurement is exactly what makes the optimisation Hansson is warning about possible.

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• Our organs and cell types age at different rates, so a single chronological age is an illusion. ETEric Topol12 Jul 2026similar wording

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