Advances in healthcare and living standards mean that life expectancy has steadily increased in the last century to an average of 81.5 years in the European Union in 2023.1
This is a significant triumph for modern medicine. However, our later years are often marked by chronic disease and declining quality of life.
Many people spend the last decade of their lives battling conditions such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, cognitive decline and metabolic disorders.1
The biological ageing process is driven by several processes that gradually reduce the body’s ability to repair itself and maintain homeostasis.2
Four of these processes — cellular senescence, chronic inflammation, gut microbial imbalances and mitochondrial dysfunction — are intrinsically linked to external factors, such as poor diet, environmental toxins and chronic stress.
These can accelerate the ageing process and contribute to the onset of age-related conditions.
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