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These Are the Ages When Your Body Starts Aging Faster, According to Science

A new study found major bursts of tissue aging in the 30s and 50s, with different organs changing on surprisingly different timelines.

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Aging isn’t as linear as a number going up. Different parts of you age at different rates, and aging depends on a variety of factors. Your individual organs, for example, might age differently from one another, and the rate at which your, say, liver ages is probably different from everybody else’s.

A new study published in Nature Aging suggests the body’s aging process is even less orderly than that. Researchers at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute analyzed 25,306 microscope images from 40 types of tissue taken from 970 organ donors between ages 21 and 70.

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