In this year’s hit film The Substance, Demi Moore plays a 50-year-old star who turns to a black market drug that promises the anti-ageing holy grail: a younger, more beautiful you. I won’t spoil the plot, save to say it turns out you can’t turn back the clock without some pretty gory side effects.
While in reality no one can defy the passage of time, the recent fitness trend of biological age tests suggests you may be able to do something about the rate at which your body declines. Your so-called biological age does not have to be the same as your calendar age. Claims from some users make for eyebrow-raising reading: A CEO celebrates her 59th birthday but claims to have a biological age of just 21; a 60-year-old entrepreneur claims to have a biological age of 35. Even the Kardashians have gotten in on the trend, with Kim and Khloe boasting biological ages nine and 11 years younger than their chronological ages, respectively. Apparently it’s no longer enough just to look younger; now we’re expected to actually be younger, too.
