Cellular ageing testing at Cellora: ageing speed, damage and recovery capacity

Biological age describes how cells and tissues are actually functioning, and can differ from calendar age by years. The drivers include genetics, sleep, accumulated stress, nutrition, smoking and chronic inflammation.

The ageing-speed dimension answers how fast decline has been running recently. It is most useful for follow-up: comparing before and after a behaviour change or treatment shows direction more clearly than a single reading.

Accumulated damage reflects the sum of oxidative stress, inflammation and environmental exposure; recovery capacity indicates how quickly the body returns to baseline after a new stressor.

In a cell therapy context, recovery capacity has direct practical meaning: post-procedure healing, tissue repair and treatment response all depend on the body's own restorative capability.

The clinic also uses these findings around harvest timing, stating that functional results are used to identify when the body is in its best condition before cells are collected for culture.

A limitation worth knowing: different biological-age methods can disagree, so track with the same method over time and never read a single number as a life-expectancy prediction.