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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Today we explore how scientists are trying to find a way to make an “aging clock” that can determine your age and health by looking at your DNA, how looking at our gut could help us treat mental health disorders, and how there may be a new treatment option in the form of a vaccine for people suffering from brain tumors!
Aging Clock
Mental Health in Your Gut
Brain Tumor Vaccine
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0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
0:08.6 | Time flies when you learn super cool stuff. |
0:10.8 | I'm Nate. |
0:11.6 | And I'm Callie. |
0:12.4 | If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. |
0:19.4 | Today you'll learn about how scientists are trying to find out a way to make an aging clock that |
0:24.3 | can determine your age and health by looking at your DNA. |
0:27.3 | How looking at our gut could help us treat mental health disorders and how there may be a new |
0:32.0 | treatment option in the form of a vaccine |
0:34.2 | for people suffering from brain tumors. Without further ado, let's satisfy some |
0:38.6 | curiosity. Nate, so I know your birthday, but do you have any idea how old your body really is? |
0:44.6 | And I don't mean your chronological age. |
0:46.4 | I mean your biological age. |
0:48.3 | My biological age, I don't think I've ever heard of that, or seen it in a doctor's chart. What is it? |
0:56.3 | Well you might actually see it someday. |
0:58.4 | Biological age is how old your body and organs seem, especially when compared to people the same age as you. |
1:03.7 | It could be a better prediction of your health and your chronological age and differ by years, |
1:07.8 | if not decades. Researchers have long been trying to create aging clocks to track just |
1:12.1 | how old we really are. |
1:13.4 | Why would my body seem older or younger? |
1:17.0 | Why wouldn't it just be my age? |
1:19.7 | Well, researchers say that things like stress, sleep, diet, and other lifestyle choices could have a real effect on the wear and tear of your body and organs. |
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