BIOLOGICAL AGE TESTING
The Insight Session
Ever wondered how old your body really is?
This advanced assessment analyses key biomarkers linked to inflammation, metabolism, and longevity, giving you a true picture of your internal age versus your chronological one.
It’s the science behind the “well” in “wellness” — clarity that lets us tailor your aesthetic and wellbeing plan with precision.
Biological Age Test
Glycanage testing
What is GlycanAge?
GlycanAge is a biological age test designed to assess your long-term health by measuring the levels of chronic inflammation in your body driven by the immune system as it ages.
Chronic inflammation can appear years before the occurrence of any disease symptoms. GlyconAge provides and complete 360° view of your health, guiding you from testing and identifying potential health risks, to a personalised action plan and continued support to add more health years to your life
What is included?
Consultation and assessment with test in clinic or a home self test if you prefer
Review appointment where you will receive your results and a comprehensive report detailing health insights. The reports will be fully interpreted at your review appointment and you will be provided with an actionable plan with recommended steps.
Why GycanAge is the most reliable measure of ageing
Based on a cutting edge biomarker GlycanAge is the most accurate measure of chronic inflammation- the most impactful hallmark of ageing.
GlycanAge is the ageing clock most responsive to lifestyle and medical interventions allowing you to track changes through time
At the same time, GlycanAge is the most reliable and stable aging biomarker giving you an overview of true biological changes years before disease onset, empowering you to act and change disease trajectory.
Treatment Time
10 Minutes
Consultation
30 minutes included in cost
Results
3-4 weeks
Review
20 minutes included with results
Discomfort Level
None
Cost
Single rest £299
Initial test and re-test after 3 months £499
Initial test and re-test after 3 months with 3 months supply of Nuchido £650
FAQs
Are GlycanAge tests accurate?
The accuracy of biological age tests is assessed in three key ways:
Relevance for Long-Term Health Outcomes: Do the results predict future health conditions and hospitalization risks?
Reliability: Are the results consistent with low repeat measurement error?
Personalization: Are the results tailored to the individual based on age, gender, and ethnicity?
GlycanAge excels in all three areas. It is highly predictive of future health conditions and hospitalization risks, outperforming many other aging clocks and traditional clinical biomarkers. We prioritize quality and accuracy over profit, conducting multiple tests on each sample to ensure trustworthy results with an error margin of less than 1%. Any change in your GlycanAge score reflects a true biological change, not a measurement error.
Developed from over 30 years of research, GlycanAge is supported by 200+ peer-reviewed publications and a robust baseline of 200,000 samples from top biobanks, representing diverse ages, genders, and ethnicities.
How do I calculate my biological age?
While there are various methods to estimate your body age, true biological age is determined at a molecular level. This is where GlycanAge stands out among aging clocks. Unlike others, GlycanAge integrates genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors, providing a comprehensive measure of the changes occurring in your body over time.
What are Glycans?
Glycans are sugar molecules that modify proteins in your body, reflecting your lifestyle choices and indicating the inflammatory state of your immune system, which determines your biological age. They significantly influence your unique biology and are regulated by both your genes and your environment, including lifestyle choices.
Glycans are highly diverse and their structures can change due to various factors, including aging, disease, and lifestyle.
As biological age markers, glycans provide insights into the aging process because their patterns on proteins, particularly Immunoglobulin G (IgG), change predictably with age. By analyzing these glycan structures, scientists can assess the biological age of an individual, which may differ from their chronological age. This helps in understanding how lifestyle, diet, stress, and other factors influence aging and can guide personalized interventions to improve health and longevity.
This is a frequently asked question? How does Glycanage differ from other biological age tests?
GlycanAge stands out among aging clocks by integrating genetic, epigenetic, and environmental aspects of aging, and it responds to lifestyle interventions. Unlike epigenetic clocks, which do not respond to caloric restriction or weight loss, GlycanAge does. Our studies show that beneficial lifestyle changes can measurably reverse glycan aging, making GlycanAge an ideal tool for assessing longevity interventions.
For instance, telomere shortening acts as a DNA timer limiting the lifespan of individual cells. While telomeres are excellent markers of aging at the cellular level, they are not reliable predictors of age-related health status for the whole body, which comprises trillions of cells with varying ages and lifespans. A large study recently concluded that telomeres are poor predictors of age-related health status.
Many epigenetic clocks have emerged based on Steve Horvath's discovery that certain DNA methylation patterns correlate strongly with chronological age. While epigenetics holds significant biomarker potential, there is limited research on what these clocks actually measure. The Horvath clock's strong correlation with chronological age limits its utility.
GlycanAge measures the composition of the IgG glycome (glycans attached to IgG). The IgG glycome not only changes with age but also affects inflammation at multiple levels. Glycans serve as both biomarkers and functional effectors of aging. Studies show that accelerated glycan aging is associated with unhealthy lifestyles and diseases, and in some cases, glycans are causal in disease development.
What does the test measure?
The GlycanAge test measures glycosylation patterns, specifically focusing on the glycan structures attached to Immunoglobulin G (IgG) proteins. This process is highly regulated and reflects changes due to aging, lifestyle, and overall health. The test provides insights into biological age by analyzing these glycan patterns, which can indicate chronic inflammation and the impact of various lifestyle factors.
Glycosylation Patterns: The specific structures and variations of glycans attached to IgG proteins.
Biological Age: An estimate of your biological age based on glycan profiles, which may differ from your chronological age.
Inflammation Levels: Indicators of chronic inflammation linked to lifestyle and aging processes.
While it can indicate general health and inflammation levels, it does not diagnose specific medical conditions.
In summary, the GlycanAge test is a tool for assessing biological age and the effects of lifestyle on aging, but it does not measure other aging biomarkers like glycation, DNA methylation, or telomere length.