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When Liz Earle turned 60 last year, she didn't want to acknowledge it.
"I just wanted to crawl under a stone and pretend it wasn't happening because I didn't identify with this number," she tells the Telegraph.
But now, at age 45, she's ready to dial it back.
"I have a 44-year-old boyfriend and I tease him that I'm going to soon be much younger than he is, and he's going to have to watch out," she says.
"What matters is your biological age, not chronological age," she adds.
When she was in her 50s, Earle had her biological age tested (physical fitness, muscle mass, blood markers, DNA), and it revealed her biological age to be 39.
"I was 59, but I'd had my biological age tested, which at that time was 39," she says.
"So I split the difference and put 49.
So I sat him down and said, 'I've got something to tell you' actually I'm 60,' and he said, 'OK,' and he said, 'OK,' and I sat him down and said, 'Did you have something to tell me?'" Read the Entire Article
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