BAM Interview with Dr. Ward Dean Return to the Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute Home Page . All rights reserved . Interview with Ward Dean, M.D. Evaluating Personal Health Programs by Steven Wm. A feature article will follow in a subsequent issue.
Biological age is an objective assessment of a person's health status.
Certain parameters, called biomarkers , change significantly with age. By tracking these results from exam to exam, we can determine a biological rate of aging. One that increases it is not. Your book makes a great case for the feasibility of measuring biological age. Ultimately, aging measurement, or functional assessment, will become a routine part of annual physical exams.