Ads have popped up lately offering tests that promise to reveal your true cellular age.
Maybe you’ve seen them on the Internet or heard them on the radio.
Here’s how it works… You pay about $99 and send a drop of blood or a cheek swab to a mail-order company. They’ll test your DNA to determine the length of your telomeres. This, they claim, reveals your cellular age.
Now, if you’re a regular reader, you know I believe that telomeres are the biggest medical breakthrough since penicillin. They’re the little caps on the end of each strand of your DNA that controls how your cells age.
Longer telomeres mean better health. Shorter telomeres signal premature aging.
Knowing how long your telomeres are makes sense…
But the problem is these mail-in tests don’t work.
The science just hasn’t developed enough to do accurate telomere testing using a DNA sample sent through the mail.
Most telomere testing labs only measure “average” telomere length. And getting an average read just isn’t that useful.
That’s because not every telomere in a cell has the same length. Some may be really long and healthy. But others may be shrinking at a faster rate. And you need to know how many are actually in trouble.
That’s what makes the telomere testing I do for my patients so unique.
At the Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine, I use the only test available that tells you how many critically short telomeres you have.
It’s a much more important measurement. And it’s been proven accurate in clinical studies.1
But at my clinic, we go even further than that…
We measure biological age by a system I call Age Quotient Analysis (AQ).
With AQ, you not only learn the length of your telomeres, you discover the true biological age of your heart, lungs, liver, brain, bone density, skin, vision and more. All together, we measure 14 different biomarkers of aging.
The Sears Institute for Anti-Aging Medicine is the only clinic that offers this unique series of tests.
This comprehensive AQ measurement tells us how your body has biologically aged over time. Then, we customize an individualized treatment plan based on your own body and what it needs.
We then use these measurements to tract the effect of our treatment. The most powerful thing we do is turn on an enzyme called telomerase. And that’s where the real anti-aging magic begins.
When you turn on telomerase, your telomeres start to regenerate and grow longer. And that lengthening is what slows aging — reversing your biological age.
Let me show you what I mean.
In the graph below, you can see how the average biological age of one of my patients who followed my AQ protocol dropped over time.
My patient (MF) was 58 when we started the telomere protocol. By the end of our measured treatment, he celebrated his 61st birthday.
But his biological age had gone backward to 44…
He grew 17 years younger in 30 months.
On average the patients at my clinic who’ve gone through this anti-aging protocol have grown 14 years younger.
I’m currently conducting a groundbreaking AQ clinical trial at my clinic. I’d like to invite you to be a part of it. If you’re interested in turning back the clock and reversing your biological age — or if you want more information about my Age Quotient Analysis — please call my clinic at 561-784-7852. My friendly staff will be happy to answer your questions.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD, CNS
1. Canela A, Vera E, Klatt P, Blasco MA. “High-throughput telomere length quantification by FISH and its application to human population studies.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007;104(13):5300-5.