We've managed to prolong our life, but not with health. I think there's an extra 20 years we have in

lifespan over the last 50 to 100 years, but all these extra years came with disease. So we can see

changes in your glycom up to 10 years prior to symptoms and a diagnosis. So you can be kind of be

living too fast and you don't feel it for 10 years until something hits you.

And this is a way of giving you that early warning that maybe you're going a bit too fast.

And in our case, we see it on the immune system.

So Nicolina Loke is the CEO and co-founder of Glycan Age, a pioneering health tech and longevity startup

that's able to tell you your biological age.

And that knowledge could help prevent disease in the future.

I'm Liz Earle and this is the Lizelle Well-Being Show, the podcast helping us all have a better second half.

And my mission, as ever, is to find ways for all of us to thrive in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today. And this episode is brought to you by Glycan Age. Well, do you know, May is my birthday month. I might be getting chronologically older. Yeah, I'll be 62 in just a few days. But I am determined to keep my biological age much younger than that. And I'm managing, okay, so far, I did take a glycan age test and we'll chat about what that involves shortly. And it turns out that my biological age,

so that's the age of my cells and my tissues, is around 39. I'll take that. Well, glycan age is built on over 20 years of research and provides a dynamic measure of biological age based on glycans. And that's a word I think

we're going to be hearing a lot more of over the coming years. So today, I want to speak to the

CEO and co-founder of Glycan Age, Nicolina, to start to understand what they are and why they're

so crucial to healthy aging. We don't just want to be

living longer for the sake of it. We want those later years to be filled with real health

and vitality. And this is all about being proactive about our personal health care,

isn't it, rather than relying on reactive medicine when a disease has already developed?

Well, I suspect that after hearing from Nicolina today, you might want to discover your own

biological age. It's truly fascinating. I've had several people close to me do it. And you can head

to glycanage.com and use the code Liz loves for 15% off your test.

Well, Nicolina, welcome. And I know that you actually grew up surrounded by scientific innovation. So tell us a little bit about

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