How Glycans Predict Chronic Disease 10 Years Early and Test Biological Age with Nikolina Lauc

As it turns out, aging isn't just about wrinkles and gray hair. It’s about your immune system silently giving out years in advance.

If you're dealing with chronic stress, sleep issues, inflammation, hormone shifts, or just feel like your body is aging faster than it should, there's a test that might explain exactly why—and how to turn it around.

I sat down with Nikolina Lauc, CEO of GlycanAge, to unpack the science of glycans—those powerful, complex sugars that serve as early warning signals for disease and inflammation, even a decade before symptoms show up.

Nikolina shares how glycans can predict things like hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis years before they happen, how menopause accelerates aging by 10+ years, why stress adds 15 years to your biological clock, and how hormone replacement, moderate exercise, and even switching from HIIT to yoga can roll your biological age backward.

This is the kind of info that gives you back control of your health.

“We can predict hypertension six years ahead of time with 98% accuracy. We can predict rheumatoid arthritis 10 years ahead of time with 92% accuracy.” ~ Nikolina Lauc

In This Episode:
00:00 - Introduction
04:02 - Backstory: What are glycans, and why should you measure them?
08:22 - Research and predictive power of GlycanAge
15:13 - What to expect from a GlycanAge test
17:42 - Top factors that improve your biological age
25:33 - The effects of stress on your biological clock
32:27 - Exercise and its effects on aging
34:50 - Key aging differences between men and women
37:48 - Things to do if your biological age is high
43:40 - How to get the GlycanAge test

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About Nikolina Lauc
Nikolina Lauc is the co-founder and CEO of GlycanAge and has helped pioneer a revolutionary way to measure biological aging through glycans—complex carbohydrates that change with immune system wear and tear. Her father, a renowned glyco-biologist and the second most published scientist in the field, developed one of the first biomarkers of molecular aging. GlycanAge has since analyzed over 200,000 samples—more than 85% of all human glycan data globally. Nikolina is on a mission to make early detection and personalized prevention mainstream.

Learn more at: https://glycanage.com

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