Women show signs of cellular aging at 19 that affect men at 40

The time and rate of cellular aging in the male and female body can differ significantly.

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According to a new study, women’s cells show the hallmarks of aging in early adulthood, while men don’t until they’re in their 40s.

Michael Ben Ezra of the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Copenhagen and colleagues used machine learning to analyze 33 million biopsy reports taken from more than 4.9 million people, from newborns to people over 100 years old, between 1970 and 2018. , transgender…