V.M. Novoselov
There are many articles and books of various merit, devoted to the topic of «diagnostics of aging». Often the authors of such books themselves show that they have no desire to present a critical view of the topic. Scientific texts and new names for this topic also, in my opinion, speak more about the authors than about their knowledge of this issue.
The topic of measuring or diagnosing aging is well known to gerontologists in the context of the problem of biological age (hereinafter BA). Its importance is that in order to influence our aging, we need to be able to measure this process. Biocorrectors, individual dietary regimens and physical activity also require digital estimates of the changes in both life span and its quality that they cause.
The article proposes the simplest principle for assessing BA, which allows assessing the rate of aging and putting an end to the assessment of the remaining period of a person’s life. This indicator has an important prognostic value in the event of a sharp deviation of the obtained estimate from the indicator of the age of survival for a given age cohort.