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Your Heart, Brain, and Gut Age at Different Speeds: Manage Your Biological Drift With Multi-Omics
Your Heart, Brain, and Gut Age at Different Speeds: Manage Your Biological Drift With Multi-Omics

Our organs age at different rates and not necessarily in line with our chronological age which is referred to as Biological Drift. We can map the drift via multi-omics testing, ultimately forecast it to help improve our healthspan.

5 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
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Your Full Guide to Biological Drift

Our full library of the data-led science informing vivaLAB's unique approach to tracking and optimising your Biological Drift.

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What Is vivaAGE? How a Free Snapshot Estimates Biological Age, and What It Cannot Show
What Is vivaAGE? How a Free Snapshot Estimates Biological Age, and What It Cannot Show

vivaAGE is a free, self-report Snapshot that estimates how your habits compare with your chronological age. Here is how to read it, and what a measured view adds.

6 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Feeling Older Than Your Age: What Self-Perceived Age Can and Cannot Tell You
Feeling Older Than Your Age: What Self-Perceived Age Can and Cannot Tell You

How old you feel is studied as a signal in its own right. Here is what research links to felt age, how it works inside vivaAGE, and what to look at if you feel older than you are.

5 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
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The Phase After the Breakthrough: Understanding Biological Drift
The Phase After the Breakthrough: Understanding Biological Drift

The quieter phase after the early wins, and why noticing gradual biological change matters more than chasing the next big result.

3 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
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A Year of Knowing, Not Guessing: Why a Series of Results Beats a Snapshot
A Year of Knowing, Not Guessing: Why a Series of Results Beats a Snapshot

A year of testing instead of guessing gives you something rare: a real trajectory for your biology, not just an impression.

3 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
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Epigenetics: How Your Daily Choices Help Shape Your Biology
Epigenetics: How Your Daily Choices Help Shape Your Biology

Your DNA isn’t fixed destiny. How the way you live is linked to which genes are switched up or down.

3 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
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Epigenetics and Healthspan: How Daily Choices Influence the Way Your Genes Behave
Epigenetics and Healthspan: How Daily Choices Influence the Way Your Genes Behave

You can’t change the genes you inherited, but you have some influence over how they behave. What the science supports and where it’s oversold.

3 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Biological Age Tests in Australia: What Each Type Measures, and What a Single Number Misses
Biological Age Tests in Australia: What Each Type Measures, and What a Single Number Misses

Epigenetic clocks, telomeres, blood algorithms and free calculators compared, plus why your direction over time matters more than one score.

6 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Your Heart, Brain, and Gut Age at Different Speeds: Manage Your Biological Drift With Multi-Omics
Your Heart, Brain, and Gut Age at Different Speeds: Manage Your Biological Drift With Multi-Omics

Our organs age at different rates and not necessarily in line with our chronological age which is referred to as Biological Drift. We can map the drift via multi-omics testing, ultimately forecast it to help improve our healthspan.

5 MIN READ
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
Dr. Andrew O'Brien
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