Your body ages rapidly in two ‘bursts,’ at 44 and 60. Here’s how to prepare. (Page 6 ) | September 17, 2024

Samuel Lin, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and a plastic surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, who was not involved in the research, explains that the molecular changes that suddenly occur during the first aging burst may be further exacerbated when we hit our 60s—with each period resulting in visible outcomes such as declining collagen and elastin production, reduced melanin, and hormonal changes that contribute to diminished skin quality and the graying and thinning of hair.