Is Horvath’s Clock the Smoking Gun of Biological Aging?

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Is Horvath’s Clock the Smoking Gun of Biological Aging?

Horvath’s clock proved a very clear relationship between this methylation?—?both gained and lost?—?and the chronological age of humans, or as Horvath puts it, “the number on your passport.” He also believes it bears some relationship to biological age, the very definition of which is so hotly debated among biologists that Horvath compares its vagueness to “the concept of, ‘What is god?’” Understand what drives biological aging, and you’ll understand the mechanisms that cause aging.

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