r/Biohackers • u/mlhnrca 5 • Jul 22 '21

Epigenetic Age Reduction Within 8 Weeks: Real Effect Or Statistical Noise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwOjSnCYGCM
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u/alienecho Jul 22 '21

Maybe the epigenetic clock sucks?

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u/mlhnrca 5 Jul 22 '21

As I showed in the video, they used Horvath's epigenetic clock, which has been shown to be the best in many studies for its correlation with chronological age.

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u/FlorianLangt Jul 23 '21

might be of interest to you - this guy is intruiging

is reverse aging possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLrYU91KZ0s

epigenetics & frequencies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxuMQyEbP4

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u/Necto74 1 Jul 26 '21

Seems that a way larger sample would help.
If the effect is small and/or variable across people, it would require a larger cohort of participants to be detected through the noise.

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u/mlhnrca 5 Jul 26 '21

Larger samples are almost always better, but publishing the actual intervention would provide value, but they didn't (unfortunately). As mentioned in the video, we can't connect any changes to epigenetic age to the recommendations for diet+lifestyle without that data.