Women’s Breasts Age More Quickly than the Rest of the Human Body

Wow! Gravity isn't the culprit after all? Apparently not, since some parts of the body age at different rates and this was determined by identifying the age of different tissue samples within the human body. Steve Horvath and his team from the University of California, Los Angeles analyzed more than seven thousand tissue samples to create an algorithm to identify the age of tissue samples and used this to discover that female breasts are often older than their owners. Other parts of the body that age at different rates include the heart and cancerous tissues. The heart tissue appeared to be younger (as much as nine years younger) than the owner’s actual age possibly due to being constantly regenerated by stem cells and the breast tissue older (up to three years older) possibly because of the constant exposure to hormones in the breast. Cancerous tissues aged prematurely and appeared up to 36 years older than a person’s actual age. Perhaps Horvath and his team’s work on identifying the ages of different tissue within the human body will someday soon help in the research in diagnosing and finding a cure for cancer.