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    My PhenoAge: 20.17 years

    How nine routine blood values turn into a phenotypic age of roughly 20.17 years under the Levine equation – with every input value, unit and limitation.

    Result at a glance

    The basis is my blood panel from 19 September 2025. My chronological age on that day was 34.57 years. The nine mandatory markers of the clinical PhenoAge produce a value of 20.17 years.

    Chronological age
    34.57 years
    PhenoAge
    20.17 years
    Difference to actual age
    14.39 years
    Markers used
    9 of 9

    That works out to roughly 14 years and 5 months below my chronological age. This is a model-based estimate – not a diagnosis and not a statement about individual life expectancy.

    My nine blood values

    All values come from a single lab appointment on 19 September 2025. They are shown exactly as they appeared in the report; the calculator converts them into the model units automatically.

    • Albumin

      46 g/L

      Model unit: g/L

    • Creatinine

      87 µmol/L

      Model unit: µmol/L

    • Glucose

      5.3 mmol/L

      Model unit: mmol/L

    • hsCRP

      0.6 mg/L

      Model unit: mg/dL

    • Lymphocytes

      42 %

      Model unit: %

    • MCV

      84 fL

      Model unit: fL

    • RDW-CV

      11.2 %

      Model unit: %

    • Alkaline phosphatase

      92 U/L

      Model unit: U/L

    • White blood cells

      4.6 ×10⁹/L

      Model unit: 10³/µL

    How the value is produced

    The nine markers and chronological age are weighted with the coefficients from Levine et al. (2018). This yields a linear predictor that a Gompertz function translates into a ten-year mortality risk. That risk is then converted back into an age in years – the PhenoAge.

    This is the clinical PhenoAge from blood values, not the DNA-methylation-based DNAm PhenoAge. Both carry the same name but measure different things and are not directly comparable.

    How this differs from my Bortz Age

    In parallel I calculated my Bortz Age from the same blood panel. Both models pointing in a similar direction does not make them identical: they use different markers, coefficients and reference cohorts, so the results must not be equated.

    Context and scientific limits

    The Levine model was developed on a NHANES cohort whose participants were on average considerably older than I was at the time of measurement (34.57 years). The calculation is therefore an extrapolation to the edge of the age range studied.

    Lab values fluctuate by day, method and laboratory. A single measurement is a snapshot, not a diagnosis. What matters most is the trend across several measurements taken at the same lab.

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    Blood panel date: 19 September 2025 (2025-09-19). Research-based estimate – not a medical diagnosis.