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Too many of us believe that our rate of aging is predetermined and inevitable. Yet, the truth is that our exact biological age is determined not by our genes, but more by what we eat, our level of stress, the degree to which we exercise, and many other lifestyle modifiable factors completely under our control. Why else, for instance, would smokers observe their biological age visibly reverse 13 years after only 9 months of smoking cessation?