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Calculate your biological age. Peripheral vascular condition. Central nervous system

Each of us has repeatedly noticed that people with the same passport age sometimes do not look alike at all. One at 40 already looks almost old, and the other at 60 is young, energetic and full of life. The fact is that the state of our health does not depend on the number of years lived, but on the degree of safety of the organism. It is this factor that determines biological age person.

There is no absolute system for measuring biological age. However, at home, you can pass a number of tests that show how worn out our body is. The results of such a mini-study make it possible to understand what age group corresponds to the body of a particular person.

Spine flexibility

Lean your body forward with your knees bent slightly. If you are in your 20s and 30s, you can place your palms on the floor. A 40-year-old man from such a position can only reach the ground with his fingertips, and 50 years old can reach the middle of his legs with his hands.

Another way is to count the number of forward bends you can do in a minute. More than 50 movements corresponds to the age of 20; a 30-year-old bends 35 to 49 times a minute, a 40-year-old bends 30 to 34 times, and a 50-year-old bends from 25 to 29 times. Over the age of 60, a maximum of 24 bends per minute can be done.

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Speed ​​reaction

To conduct the test, you will have to resort to the services of an assistant. Ask a friend to take a ruler 50 cm long, the zero division should "look" at the floor. You should place your hand 10 cm below the zero end of the ruler. The assistant should suddenly release the ruler, and you should catch it at the moment of falling, holding it between the large and forefinger... Reaction speed is measured by the divisions your fingers are on. V in this case the age matching table looks like this:

  • 20 cm - 20 years old;
  • 25 cm - 30 years old;
  • 35 cm - 40 years old;
  • 45 cm - 60 years old.

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The state of the vestibular apparatus

You should close your eyes and try to stand on one leg (the other leg is raised 10 cm from the floor). Age matching is determined by the time during which you were able to maintain balance. For the age of 20, this is 30 seconds, 40 years - 20 seconds, 50 years - 15 seconds, 60 years and older - 10 seconds.

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Peripheral vascular condition

Place your thumb and forefinger on the back of your hand, squeeze for 5 seconds and release. Will appear on the skin White spot... Notice the time it takes for it to disappear. In a 30-year-old person, it is about 5 seconds. The state of the vessels corresponding to 40 years will allow the skin to return to its normal color in 8 seconds. At 50, it takes 10 seconds, and at 60, 15 seconds.

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Lung health

The safety of the lungs is determined by the distance from which a person can blow out a burning candle. At 20 years old it is easy to do it from 1 m, at 40 years old - from 70-80 cm, and at 60 years old - from 50-60 cm.

The biological age is also established by the frequency of respiration. To do this, you need to calculate how many cycles of deep inhalation and full exhalation you are able to do per minute. Age matching is as follows:

  • 20 years - 40-45 cycles;
  • 30 years - 35-39 cycles;
  • 40 years - 30-34 cycles;
  • 50 years - 20-29 cycles;
  • 60 years - 15-19 cycles.

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Preservation of joints

Put your hands behind your back (one on top, one on the bottom) and lock your fingers into the lock at the level of the shoulder blades. A 20-year-old man does it without any problem. At 30 years old, you can only get the fingers of one hand with the other, at 40 years old - to bring your hands together a short distance. It is difficult for a person over the age of 50 to even get both hands behind their back.

A 70-year-old can be cheerful and energetic, while a 20-year-old can be apathetic and constantly tired. The age according to the passport does not always reflect the real age of the organism. It happens that the calendar and biological ages of the same person are radically different. For a rough estimate of your real biological age, you can arrange a small test right at home. Tests for determining biological age:

1. Heart

Count your pulse while standing. Sit down 20 times at a fairly fast pace. Count your heart rate again: how much has it increased?

Up to 10 hits - yours cardiovascular system 20 years.

10–20 strokes - 30 years.

20-30 strokes - 40 years.

30-40 strokes - 50 years.

40 or more strokes - 60 years.

Couldn't finish squats to the end - 70 and older.

Excess weight can significantly affect the result.

2. Nervous system

Your partner holds a 50 cm ruler at the 50 mark straight down. Your hand is about 10 cm lower. As soon as your partner lets go of the ruler, try to grab it with your thumb and forefinger. If you grabbed a ruler:

At around 20, your biological age is 20;

At around 25 cm - 30 years;

At 35 cm - 40 years old;

At around 45 cm - 60 years old;

Failed to catch - 70 years.

3. Vestibular apparatus

With your eyes tightly closed (important!), Stand on your right or left foot. Raise the other leg about 10 cm from the floor. Your partner should time the time during which you can resist:

30 seconds or more - you are 20;

20 seconds - 40;

15 seconds - 50;

Less than 10 seconds - 60 or more.

4. State of blood vessels

Use your thumb and forefinger to squeeze the skin on the back of your hand for 5 seconds. The skin will turn slightly white. Time how long it will take for the skin (white spot) to return to its original appearance:

5 seconds - your vessels are 30 years old;

8 seconds - about 40 years;

10 seconds - about 50 years;

15 seconds - about 60 years;

More than 15 seconds - 70 years.

5. Condition of joints

Put both hands behind your back and try to lock your fingers at the level of the shoulder blades.

If you did it with ease, your joints are 20 years old.

Just touched your fingers - you are 30 years old.

If the hands only came close, but did not touch, you are 40 years old.

If you could not get your hands behind your back and bring them closer, you are 60.

If you could not get your hands behind your back at all, you are over 60.

6. Respiratory system

Light a candle. At what maximum distance can you blow it out with one exhalation?

1 meter - your lungs are 20 years old;

80–90 cm - 30 years old;

70-80 cm - 40 years old;

60–70 cm - 50 years old;

50-60 cm - 60 years old;

Less than 50 cm - 70 years and more.

Summing up:

Add up all the results and divide by the number of tests you passed. This arithmetic mean will be your biological age.

“It's worth remembering that there are over 200 theories of aging today, and none of them is comprehensive. Aging man does not have a single mechanism... In calendar 30 years, we can be physically developed at 40, have a lung capacity corresponding to 25 years, and hearing - at 30 ... "

Don't take the results of this test too seriously. Focus on your own well-being and be healthy

Each of us has repeatedly noticed that people with the same passport age sometimes do not look like their peers at all.

One at the age of 40-45 already looks almost old, and the other at 60 is young, energetic and full of life.

Gerontologists apart from calendar age usually, the biological age of a person is also taken into account, which shows the degree of aging of the body and its individual organs and systems. And very often the indicators of these criteria do not coincide. A person can be healthy and full of strength and at 70, and sometimes even at 20, illnesses and early aging occurs.

As a result of long-term observations, scientists have concluded that women age more slowly than men, and live 6-8 years longer, and perhaps this is due to the fact that men age a little faster.

The biological age also depends on the place of residence and climatic conditions... Less than the calendar year among the peoples of the south (Abkhazians, Georgians, Karakalpaks). The closer to the north, the closer the biological age is to the calendar age, and sometimes even significantly exceeds it (especially among the Nenets, Chukchi, Eskimos, Buryats).

The state of our health does not depend on the number of years lived, but on the degree of safety of the organism. It is this factor that determines the biological age of a person.

There is no absolute system for measuring biological age. But there are many methods for determining biological age, but many of them require special equipment.
However, you can pass a number of tests at home that show how worn out our body is - they assess the state of the body and its real biological age.

The results of such a study make it possible to understand what age group the body of a particular person corresponds to.

1. Flexibility of the spine

This test allows you to determine the condition of the ligaments and tendons of the spine.

While standing, bend forward, you can bend your knees. Where did you reach with your palms?

  • Put your palms on the floor - your ligaments are 20 years old;
  • They touched the floor with only fingers, palms did not reach - 30 years;
  • Reached with palms to the ankles - 40 years;
  • Put your palms below your knees - 50 years old;
  • Knees touched - 60 years old;
  • Didn't reach the knees - 70 and older.

Another way is to count the number of forward bends you can do in a minute.

  • More than 50 movements corresponds to the age of 20;
  • a 30-year-old bends over 35 to 49 times a minute,
  • 30 to 34 times - 40 years old,
  • from 25 to 29 - 50-year-old people.
  • Over the age of 60, there are no more than 24 inclines per minute.

The spine protects the spinal cord from damage. Vertebral column as a single anatomical and physiological structure, it is retained with the help of ligaments and muscles. V spinal cord there are many centers of vegetative nervous system from which the spinal nerves depart, through the channels of which complex reflex functions are carried out.
Deterioration of the flexibility and mobility of the spine can lead to a disruption in the efficiency of neuro-regulatory processes and deterioration of the work of some organs and systems of the human body.

2. Speed ​​of reaction

To conduct the test, you will have to resort to the services of an assistant. Ask a friend or relative to take a 50 cm ruler and hold it vertically at the end corresponding to the zero mark.

You should place your hand 10 cm below the other end of the ruler.

The assistant should suddenly release the ruler, and you should catch it at the moment of the fall, holding it between your thumb and forefinger.

Reaction speed is measured by the divisions your fingers are on. In this case, the age matching table looks like this:

  • 20 cm - 20 years old;
  • 25 cm - 30 years old;
  • 35 cm - 40 years old;
  • 45 cm - 60 years old.

This test allows you to determine the downtime motor reaction and the duration of the nervous excitement. The time indicator for this reflex is important indicator functional state human nerve centers.

3. Condition of the vestibular apparatus

You will need the help of someone from your family.
Take off your shoes, close your eyes, stand on one leg, rest the other foot on the shin of the supporting leg.

The assistant marks on the clock how long you can stand like that.

  • 30 seconds or more - you are 20 years old;
  • 25 seconds - 30 years;
  • 20 seconds - 40 years;
  • 15 seconds - 50 years;
  • 10 seconds or less - 60 years.
  • You can't stand at all - 70 and older.

4. Lung health and condition

The safety of the lungs can be determined by the distance from which a person can blow out a burning candle.

  • 1 meter - your lungs are 20 years old;
  • 80-90 cm - 30 years old;
  • 70-80 cm - 40 years old;
  • 60-70 cm - 50 years old;
  • 50-60 cm - 60 years old;
  • Less than 50 cm - 70 years and older.

There is also a test that determines biological age by breathing rate. To do this, you need to calculate how many cycles of deep inhalation and full exhalation you are able to do per minute. Age matching is as follows:

  • 20 years - 40-45 cycles;
  • 30 years - 35-39 cycles;
  • 40 years - 30-34 cycles;
  • 50 years - 20-29 cycles;
  • 60 years - 15-19 cycles.


5. Preservation of joints

Place both hands behind your back: one at the bottom, the other over your shoulder.

Try to connect your fingers at the level of the shoulder blades. What happened?

  • Easily linked your fingers into a "lock" - your joints are 20 years old;
  • Fingers touched, but it didn't work out - 30 years;
  • The palms are close, but the fingers do not touch - 40 years;
  • Palms behind the back, but rather far from each other - 50 years;
  • Barely brought palms behind the back - 60 years old;
  • I can't get both hands behind my back - 70 years.

6. Determine muscle strength

Lie on hard surface on your back, bend your knees and do this exercise: raise your shoulders and shoulder blades. The loin remains tight. Place your hands behind your head or cross over your chest ..

How many times have you managed to do this?

  • 40 times - judging by the strength, you are 20 years old;
  • 35 times - 30 years;
  • 28 times - 40 years;
  • 23 times - 50 years;
  • 15 times - 60 years.
  • Less than 12 times - over 65 years of age.


7. Heart rate control before and after exercise

Count your pulse. Then squat 30 times at a fast pace.
Measure your pulse again.


By the degree of increase in heart rate, you can judge your biological age:

If your heart rate has increased by:

  • 0-10 units - age corresponds to 20 years;
  • 10-20 units - age corresponds to 30 years;
  • 20-30 units - age corresponds to 40 years;
  • 30-40 units - age corresponds to 50 years;
  • more than 40 units or the person could not complete the exercise at all - the age corresponds to 60 years and older.

Pulse can be measured by palpation of the carotid or radial artery. Palpation of the radial artery is carried out by pressing the index and middle fingers of one hand on the inside of the wrist of the other.

The carotid artery is found by placing the index finger to the neck in the middle of the line connecting lower jaw and the middle of the collarbone.

The number of heart beats per minute is determined (counting the number of beats per 60 s).

8. Condition of the skin and peripheral vessels

Place your thumb and forefinger on the back of your hand, squeeze for 5 seconds and release. A white spot will appear on the skin.

Notice the time it takes for it to disappear.

  • Up to 5 seconds - your skin is 20 years old;
  • 6-8 seconds - 30 years;
  • 9-12 seconds - 40 years old;
  • 13-15 seconds - 50 years;
  • 16-19 seconds - 60 years.
  • More than 19 seconds - 70 and older.

9. State of the central nervous system

This test requires a little preparation. Ask your assistant to draw on a piece of paper a plate consisting of five lines, five cells each, and write numbers from 1 to 25 in the cells, placing them randomly.

Then take a pencil and try to quickly, without distraction, consistently touch the cells in ascending order of numbers (from the first to the twenty-fifth).

  • If you are 20 years old, this should take no more than 35 seconds.
  • A thirty-year-old person will show a result from 36 to 40 seconds,
  • A 40-year-old will do it in 41-50 seconds,
  • A 50 year old will spend about 60 seconds.

You can also use a simple flash toy:

By the way, you can easily train your memory with such simple toys:

10. Libido

For male body is characterized by a direct dependence of the frequency of the realized sexual contacts from biological age:

  • at 20 years old, this figure is 6-7 times a week,
  • at the age of 30 - 5-6 times,
  • in 40-year-olds - 3-4 times,
  • a man aged 50 years or more is able to experience and successfully implement sex drive no more than 2 times a week.

To find out the final result, you need to find the arithmetic mean of the measured parameters: add up all your results and divide by 10. This figure will be your biological age.

The calendar and biological age of a person may not coincide.
It happens that the biological age is less than the calendar age and this indicates slow aging and a longer life span can be predicted.
If these ages are equal, then a normal physiological process takes place in the human body.
If the biological age is more than the calendar age, then this may be a sign premature aging, to which chronic diseases lead.
There are other factors that accelerate the aging process - psychoemotional stress, neurosis, syndrome chronic fatigue, vitamin deficiency.

There are other tests to determine whether your calendar age is biological. Some of them are indicated in these tables.




It is interesting

Looking closely at those who look younger, it can be noted that they, for the most part, incorrigible optimists, lead healthy image life, spend a lot of time in nature, it is pleasant to communicate with them. Prefer natural methods treatment in case of illness, but this rarely happens to them ... the list goes on.

For example, the famous Paul Bragg, in his 80s, looked 60, surfed, starved, jogged and led a very active image life.
Or tibetan monks- they know the secrets of longevity and look much younger than their earthly years.

In the photo below, 67 year old Gao Mingyuan. He began his studies at the age of 60 when he retired.

After many years of work at the factory, by the age of 60, everything hurt him, especially his legs and back. He did stretching exercises for 7-8 hours a day. Now he is 67 years old, and he has forgotten about his illnesses and does not go to doctors at all. Answering the question of what makes him happy, without hesitation, he names several things: order, many friends, good mood and love for people.
Based on materials

Do you like tests to yourself? The majority answer - yes! And today I propose a test "how to determine your biological age." All that is required is a stopwatch and a long ruler (50 cm).

What is biological age? This is not the age in the passport. Passport age is chronological age... The state needs it for statistical purposes.

And biological age is the age of various body systems. And it may not coincide at all with the actual one reflected in the documents.

There are many biological age tests. Readers of my mailing list are familiar with some of them. Someone was pleased with the results, but someone not very ...

Today I want to suggest that you, all the readers of my site, take the test and determine how really young you are.

In the photo you see photos of celebrities - Sofia Rotaru, Madonna, Chinese actress Gong Li. They are already over 40, over 50, and some over 60. But will you give them that much? You yourself probably know many more examples. famous people that look 30 years younger than their official figures.

I don't know what biological age these divas are, but they look great.

As the well-known proverb says, "a woman is as old as she looks, and a man is as old as he feels." None of these girls look more than 30. And what do you think?

What influences biological age?

Genetic inheritance plays an important role. However, this does not mean that you can look good only thanks to good genes.

You also need to pay attention to your lifestyle. Regular physical exercise in a small amount (not professional sports!) allow the systems of our body to function correctly. You can do it at least!

When in doubt that you can keep your balance with closed eyes, then it is better to stand closer to the wall or near the back of the chair.

What did you do? Compare with the tabular data and write down your metric.

1) If you have stood for 30 seconds or more - you are 20 years old;
2) from 21 to 25 seconds - 30 years;
3) from 16 to 20 seconds - 40 years;
4) from 10 to 15 seconds - 50 years;
5) 10 or less seconds or could not do this exercise at all - you are 60 years old or more.

4. Skin condition test

Pinch the back of your hand with your thumb and forefinger and hold it in place for 5 seconds. The skin in this place will turn slightly white. How long will it take for your skin to return to its original state?

Compare with the chart and write down your score.

1) Up to 5 seconds - your skin is 20 years old;
2) from 6 to 8 seconds - 30 years;
3) from 9 to 12 seconds - 40 years;
4) from 13 to 15 seconds - 50 years;
5) over 15 seconds - 60 years and older.

5. Test for the condition of the joints

Test the flexibility of the joints by trying to fold the arms in the form of a lock at the level of the shoulder blade.

To do this, put both hands behind your back: one from below, the other over your shoulder. Try to connect your fingers at the level of the shoulder blades.

What happened?

1) Easily linked your fingers into a "lock" - your joints are 20 years old;
2) The fingers touched each other, but it was not possible to connect them - 30 years;
3) Hands approached but fingers do not touch - 40 years;
4) The palms were brought behind the back, but they are far from each other - 50 years;
5) They barely got their hands on or it doesn't work at all - 60 years and more.
Write down your score.

6. Test for the state of the nervous system (speed of reaction)

Determine the state of the nervous system and at the same time check the speed of the reaction.

Take in one hand or ask a helper to hold a 50 cm ruler in front of you. It should be positioned vertically with the number "Zero" down. You need to hold on to the other end.

Your hand should be about 10 cm below the ruler. Your assistant lets go of the ruler, and you catch it with your thumb and forefinger. Where did you get it?

1) Up to 20 cm - your nerves are 20 years old;
2) 25 cm - 30 years old;
3) 35 cm - 40 years old;
4) 40 cm - 50 years old;
5) 45 cm or not caught at all - from 60 years old.

Write down your score.

Now add up all 6 indicators and divide the result by 6. This is your biological age.

I will note again that the obtained indicators are not a dogma, they can change, depending on your lifestyle.

Biological age test (video)

Write in the comments what you have done. How old do you feel?

All the best to you!

How to determine your biological age (test)