The Benefits of Biointuitive Aging

When it is your birthday, you tend to reflect on age, mortality, and what kind of presents you will receive and from whom. Well, a mature person reflects more on age and mortality. It struck me today, as I turned 43 that there are two ways of looking at age, the normal way, and what I will call the biointuitive way. We all know how the normal way of looking at age works. When we are young, we look forward to growing old. When we are teenagers, we think we are older than we really are. When we are in our 20’s and early 30’s, we enjoy how old we are. When we reach our late 30’s and 40’s, we start to realize how old we are getting. When we hit middle age, we have a midlife crisis and try to act like we are 20. Denial is especially useful at this stage of life. When we hit retiring age, we start to forget how old we really are until we pull a muscle getting out of bed.

This is how a biointuitive perspective works. I was born in the United States on 20 September 1963. According to gathered data, this means my life expectancy is approximately 67 years. (Life expectancy is the number of years one can expect to live based on the year of birth, combined with demographic, environmental, and health factors). However, better medicine and an increased awareness of health (e.g. smoking is bad for you) means that my life expectancy pushes around 74. Factor in increasing pollution and increasing work stress, and I think a good ball park figure is 72 years. So I’ll work on the basis of 72 years. This means I can expect to buy the farm sometime around 2035.

I am talking about life expectancy in chronological solar years. However, if I take my original life expectancy of 67 years at birth, I could say that instead of increasing it to 72 years, I could keep it at 67 years, but say that in biological terms, my year is longer than the 365 day chronological year. Using the ratio of 67 to 72, I could say that one biological year for me is 72/67 chronological years or 1.07 years. This would mean that instead of thinking of myself as 43 chronological years of age, I should think of myself as 40.2 years old (43 chronological age / 1.07 = 40.2 biointuitive years). In short, I have just turned 40. This has the tremendous advantage of making me age more slowly.

Of course, a chief argument against this is that I am merely fudging numbers. This may be technically true (numbers can be made to say anything) but research shows that people who think young, suffer the effects of age less than those who think old. Thus, although there is admittedly some number fudging going on here, biointuitive age calculation has three distinct advantages.

1. It helps me to think younger and therefore incur the benefits of thinking younger.
2. Biological age is a true age because it factors in the variables that go into life expectancy calculations, such as demographics, health, and environment. Biointuitive age calculations also factor in increasing life expectancy trends. It is therefore, in fact, a much truer reflection of age than merely incrementing one’s age every 365 days.

In almost all parts of the world, women have a higher life expectancy than men. This means that the difference between chronological age and biointuitive age is much more pronounced for women. Women can think even younger than men. This also means that men can say with all honesty: “No, don’t tell me you’re . You don’t look a day over .”


In terms of men and women, a woman born on the same day as I has an original life expectancy of 73 years, but according to research data, has a life expectancy of 79 years if born today. This means a woman born on the same day as I has a biointuitive age of 39.8 years, instead of 40.2 years. Imagine that, a woman who is 43 chronological years old can now say with supreme confidence and truthfulness that she has yet to turn 40.

Therefore I am happy to report that I recently turned 40 years of age and I look forward to aging much more slowly than I used to.