computer's haunted this halloween

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Someone looking wildly "older" is probably extremely unhealthy in various ways there's not much they can do over. In this study the research participants were all cancer patients. Someone who is 30 but looks like they're 50 is in a really bad state full stop.

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Yeah specifically if they look 20 years older than they actually are, they have a good chance of dying in the next 3 months. But that's equivalent to saying "people who look like they're dying are dying". Someone looking much rougher than they should for their age isn't just "aging".

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It's the kind of thing that nutcase billionaire is trying to biohack through blood transfusions and so on with limited evidence in many cases that fucking with your measurements will stop you dying.

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Throughout the article it uses the term "biological age" which the photos are supposedly measuring as if it's a standardised clinical measure that there's some agreement on, rather than a cluster of different competing measurements from assorted quacks that actually say different things about health

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