FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Telomeres are DNA regions positioned at the tips of chromosomes to protect them from attrition and damage. Telomeres become shorter in each cell replicate, naturally leading to cellular senescence and apoptosis, a key mechanism of aging and age-related chronic diseases. Telomere length measurement reveals your cellular age and telomere length is considered, a metabolic health biomarker for well-being.
Telomere length and the rate of telomere shortening serve as valuable tools for predicting and assessing biological age, age related diseases, such as: cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, infertility, autoimmune diseases and the effects of xenobiotic exposure on our health.
The regulation of the telomeric final length is influenced and determined by genetic and environmental factors.
Factors that positively influence telomere length are: nutrition, Vitamin D, exercise, normal body weight, antioxidants, stress management, omega 3 and telomerase activators.
Factors that negatively influence telomere length are: smoking, alcohol, stress, obesity, drugs, poor diet, lack of sleep, oxidation and lack of Vitamins.
Telomeres in normal human cells range in length from 5000 to 15000 bps. We continue to lose 35-150 base pairs per year until we reach a level of less than 4500 bps, at which point the chromosomes become unstable and the likelihood of serious health problems and death increases exponentially.
Biological age is the age of your cellular age. Two individuals of the same chronological age can have completely different biological conditions and thus biological ages.
You learn your cellular age and information such as the average and the median of telomeric length and the % of short telomere Length (> 3kbp) which are valuable tools for predicting age related diseases and the effects of xenobiotic exposure on our health.
Our test allows for the assessment of a metabolic biomarker of DNA health (TL) which can be repeated in different time periods to assess and evaluate treatment or lifestyle effects.
Our test, with the use of the short telomere load as a novel biomarker of biological age, provides undisputable concrete results.
In LifePlus we measure your telomere length and estimate your biological age by using Q-PCR and Q-FISH (Quantitative Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) technology.
A small amount of blood is needed if you choose the Q-FISH technique, while if you choose the Q-PCR technique saliva or a small amount of blood is needed.
You could either visit our facilities for sampling or we could direct you to our contact points as close as possible to you.
After telomere length measurement examinees receive a full report of the measurements and results on the biological age and based on additional examinations of precision medicine that include (genetic profiling, metabolomic and biochemical testing) our medical team will conclude to personalized suggestions and recommendations (such as when to repeat the test etc.) to improve your telomere health.
To get your telomere results takes 2-3 weeks (with Q-FISH technique) and …… (with Q-PCR technique).
Filling the questionnaire is necessary since after telomere length measurement our medical team will conclude personalized suggestions and recommendations to improve your telomere health.
Ρlease contact us so that we could direct you to a contact point close to you.
People interested in more comprehensive information on their health status by evaluating their current DNA health and in improving their metabolic biomarkers. Additional groups involve people with known family history disease, people suffering from age related- diseases or metabolic conditions, people recovering from treated illnesses, athletes and coaches.
Υour data are anonymously stored in our database and you can choose to give them for research. At any time you have the right to “oblivion”.
It would be your choice whether you would like to order an additional genetic profiling test. The telomere length does not involve gene testing.
The regulation of the telomeric final length is influenced and determined by genetic and environmental factors. Thus, if you follow suggestions and recommendations that are based on a good quality of life and check your telomere length, you can delay telomere’s shortening and aging.
Please contact lifeplus.telo@gmail.com and a partner will contact you.
Please contact lifeplus.telo@gmail.com and a partner will contact you.
For more information or inquiries please contact lifeplus.telo@gmail.com and a partner will contact you.
1. What are telomeres and why do we measure them?
Telomeres are DNA regions positioned at the tips of chromosomes to protect them from attrition and damage. Telomeres become shorter in each cell replicate, naturally leading to cellular senescence and apoptosis, a key mechanism of aging and age-related chronic diseases.
Telomere length measurement reveals your cellular age and telomere length is considered, a metabolic health biomarker for wellbeing.
2. How is telomere length associated with my health?
Telomere length and the rate of telomere shortening serve as valuable tools for predicting and assessing biological age, age related diseases, such as: cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, infertility, autoimmune diseases and the effects of xenobiotic exposure on our health.
3. Does lifestyle have any effect on telomere length?
The regulation of the telomeric final length is influenced and determined by genetic and environmental factors.
Factors that positively influence telomere length are: nutrition, Vitamin D, exercise, normal body weight, antioxidants, stress management, omega 3 and telomerase activators.
Factors that negatively influence telomere length are: smoking, alcohol, stress, obesity, drugs, poor diet, lack of sleep, oxidation and lack of Vitamins.
4. What is a good telomere length?
Telomeres in normal human cells range in length from 5000 to 15000 bps. We continue to lose 35-150 base pairs per year until we reach a level of less than 4500 bps, at which point the chromosomes become unstable and the likelihood of serious health problems and death increases exponentially.
5. What is the relationship between chronological and biological age?
Biological age is the age of your cellular age. Two individuals of the same chronological age can have completely different biological conditions and thus biological ages.
6. What information can I get from the Biological Age test?
You learn your cellular age and information such as the average and the median of telomeric length and the % of short telomere Length (> 3kbp) which are valuable tools for predicting age related diseases and the effects of xenobiotic exposure on our health.
7. What are the advantages of our Biological Age test over others?
8. How valid is our Biological Age test?
9. How do you measure telomere length?
In LifePlus we measure your telomere length and estimate your biological age by using Q-PCR and Q-FISH (Quantitative Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization) technology.
10. What type of sample is needed for the analysis?
A small amount of blood is needed if you choose the Q-FISH technique, while if you choose the Q-PCR technique saliva or a small amount of blood is needed.
11. How do I send my sample for analysis?
You will receive a kit containg all the necessary …..
Courier service….
12. How often is it recommended to repeat the Biological Age test?
After telomere length measurement examinees receive a full report of the measurements and results on the biological age and based on additional examinations of precision medicine that include (genetic profiling, metabolomic and biochemical testing) our medical team will conclude to personalized suggestions and recommendations (such as when to repeat the test etc.) to improve your telomere health.
13. How long does it take to learn my results?
To get your telomere results takes 2-3 weeks (with Q-FISH technique) and …… (with Q-PCR technique).
14. Why do I need to fill out the questionnaire?
Filling the questionnaire is necessary since after telomere length measurement our medical team will conclude personalized suggestions and recommendations to improve your telomere health.
15. Where can I get a telomere test near me?
16. Who should take the test?
People interested in more comprehensive information on their health status and in improving metabolic biomarkers.
People with known family history disease
People suffering from age related- diseases or metabolic conditions
People recovering from treated illnesses
Athletes – Coaches
etc…
17. Is my data public?
Υour data are anonymously stored in our database and you can choose to give them for research. At any time you have the right to “oblivion”.
18. Will you also examine my genes?
It would be your choice whether you would like to order an additional genetic profiling test. The telomere length does not involve gene testing.
19. Is telomeres’ shortening reversible?
The regulation of the telomeric final length is influenced and determined by genetic and environmental factors. Thus, if you follow suggestions and recommendations that are based on a good quality of life and check your telomere length, you can delay telomere’s shortening and aging.
20. What can I do to delay aging?
Please contact lifeplus.telo@gmail.com and a partner will contact you.
21. I am a research associate/company/ partner and want to contribute/collaborate. How can I find you? How can i reach you?
Please contact lifeplus.telo@gmail.com and a partner will contact you.
22. Who should I contact for more information?
For more information or inquiries please contact lifeplus.telo@gmail.com and a partner will contact you.