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The actress Katherine Ryan would seem well placed to present a podcast that explores the aging process: her affection for adjustments, including Botox and lip streams, was well advertising. But What is my age? is ostensibly more than appearances in the surface. At the center of each episode is a test where a blood sample comes from an individual – in this case, the guests of Ryan – to show to what extent their biological age differs from their age in years – or, as it is now called, their “chronological age”.
It may look like Hokum, not to say a recipe for health anxiety. But Ryan's resident expert, Dr. Nichola Conlon's biologist, is there to interpret the results and ensure that the concept of biological age is science based on. In any case, Ryan's guests seem satisfied enough to spread blood for her, even if the results have the potential to disturb them.
The first is the actor and podcaster standing Joanne McNally, who remembers an obsessive diet of his mother and is thinking of being an adopted child having an intention of knowledge of the medical history of his biological parents. She also mentions her treatment with Botox, which she stopped because, she said, it made her look like a “melted baby”. At this point, you might expect her and Ryan hollows out in the societal pressures that led them to undergo costly and invasive procedures to stop the appearance of aging. But this is not the case. The biological age of McNally turns out to be 20 years old, 21 years younger than its chronological age, which makes it, according to Conlan, “an extreme aberrant value” and “genetically blessed”.
The second guest is another comic strip, Rommesh Ranganathan, who says he did a fitness campaign after a word Health eight years ago which revealed that he was likely to die early. Its biological age is now seven years younger than its real age. And the last is the former footballer of England Jill Scott, whose years of intense physical effort mean that his biological age is considerably older than his chronological (this must wait for an elite athlete, explains Conlon). Their conversations relate to physical form and self -image, but by deepening or rarely reveal something surprising. It is also shocking to hear Ryan read long advertisements singing the praises of collagen supplements, a product intended for middle -aged women who are not cheap and whose advantages are not proven.
The world is already flooded with podcasts in which celebrities have conversations with their famous friends, so that new projects are rightly under pressure to stand out from the crowd. Ryan What is my age? Certainly has a strong theme, but he has not yet explored significantly.
