Deepen your knowledge and understanding of your TallyAge™.
Congratulations! This is just the beginning of taking charge of your aging. Think of your TallyAge™ like the credit score for your body - it’s a changeable metric that can indicate overall health and is influenced by various factors. It’s important t
Seeing a big or unexpected change in your TallyAge from one test to the next? Don’t worry — your TallyAge test results may move up and down due to various factors. Temporary events like a recent illness or a major life change that causes stress (e.g.
When a member fills out the Tally Health Lifestyle Survey, they get a score out of 100. Tally Health then uses a proprietary algorithm in conjunction with a user’s DNA methylation profile to figure out which lifestyle factors to prioritize. By using
It all depends on your personal goal and starting point. While it’s always nice to see a negative number (signaling that your body is younger than your chronological age), what’s most important is how your personal TallyAge™ changes over time. The go
Based on published clinical trials, we know that epigenetic age can be changed in just a few months. The extent of change and the duration required to observe an effect likely differ from intervention to intervention (e.g., doing more cardio each wee
While there are many ways to provide insights into biological age - such as by tracking movement or measuring clinical markers in blood - tests based on DNA methylation are thought to represent the gold standard. Compared to other DNA methylation tes
Using an exceptionally large and diverse dataset spanning a wide age range, a machine learning model was used to identify DNA methylation sites that both correlate with holistic lifestyle factors - such as diet, exercise, sleep, alcohol, and smoking
This means that your DNA methylation profile most closely resembles someone that is your chronological age. While one way to interpret this is that you are biologically aging as expected, this may also indicate that could reduce your biological age f
The highest-impact factors are those that have the biggest impact on your TallyAge™ score. In broad strokes, the following have been observed to impact TallyAge™ scores the most:. Along with a healthy diet and exercise, by modifying these behaviors o
Yes, different types of stress such as surgery, pregnancy, and infections can cause temporary increases in predicted age. However, the good news is that this effect can be reversed. Want to learn more? Click here to read a recently published article