Stress in Your Head Affects Biological Age

My GlycanAge came back high again. Same as the last time I tested.

For six months I did the things you are supposed to do. I cut the travel. I protected my sleep. Quiet weeks, no red-eyes, no living out of a suitcase. I genuinely expected the biological age number to come down. It didn't move.

At SuperHuman in Stockholm I put this to Nikolina Lauc, who built GlycanAge. Their answer was blunt. It's in your head.

Not dismissive. Literal. Glycans track inflammation, and the most stubborn source of inflammation is not in your calendar. It is the stress you carry on the inside, the kind that never shows up as a flight or a deadline. They see it all the time. People who train, eat clean, don't drink, and still test years older than their age. The common thread is a nervous system that never fully switches off.

They have cases where someone's biological age fell by more than a decade. Not from a supplement or a new protocol. From leaving a situation that was quietly wearing them down.

So I am left with an uncomfortable question. I can optimize sleep, food, training, light, cold, all of it, and I have. But how do you actually lower the stress that lives in your head, the background noise you have normalized so completely that you barely feel it anymore?

I don't have a clean answer yet. Still working on it, honestly.

If you have moved your own biological age, or your baseline stress, in a way you could actually measure, what did it for you?