Healthy Ageing Myth: Your genes dictate exactly how you will age 🧬
My Facebook post today was around Healthy Ageing Myths, there are quite a few!
We often look at our parents and grandparents and wonder whether we're getting a glimpse of our own future.
Genes certainly matter. They can influence our susceptibility to particular diseases, aspects of our physical health and even how our bodies respond to some of the things we do.
But how we age isn't written entirely in our DNA.
Physical activity, smoking, diet, social connection, healthcare, environment and other life circumstances all interact with our genes over a lifetime. There are things we can't control about getting older. But there are also plenty of things we can.
You can't choose the genes you were given — but there is still plenty you can influence.
