You can do something about healthy aging: ‘Cherish your cells like your children’ | Inland

Theo Warmenhoven

Ⓒ Eran Oppenheimer

Amsterdam – Long will she live, we sing. True, by 2050 the number of people over 80 will have tripled. But one is still hopping in the boxing ring at 75 years old, while the other can barely get out of the feet. Matter of cells! Biologist Eline Slagboom: “If you know at the age of sixty that your biological age is eighty, you can also tinker with it a lot. Cherish your cells like your children!”