I’m not the biggest fan of numbers; just ask my accountant. I’d rather not convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, and when my flight to Rome is listed as 21:10, I panic a little, fairly certain I’ll miss it. But I found a number I could love, and it’s the one that Function Health delivered to me with a whole pile of data after I opened a vein and filled 20 vials of blood for testing. My biological age is 10 years younger than my chronological one. That’s a hot number!
It didn’t take me long to stop gloating. Dr. Mark Hyman, the functional medicine doctor who co-founded Function Health and wrote 10 books, including Live Forever, told me that when he was 62, his biological age was 43. And when he turned 64, his body registered only 39. Oh, also, insult to injury? He was speaking to me from Ibiza. You win, Benjamin Button.
