Last month, the Hollywood actress Olivia de Havilland (shown above in 1935 and 2011) celebrated her birthday – she was 103. Her sister, the actress Joan Fontaine, lived to be 96. Obviously, longevity was encoded in their DNA, but is there more than genes to the story?
We all inherit certain genetic variations that may make us more or less resistant to illness, but things get more complicated with conditions such as heart disease or cancer. hese are likely to be associated with the efects of multiple genes in combination with lifestyle and environmental factors.
YOUR BIOLOGICAL AGE VERSUS YOUR ACTUAL AGE