When people say it will make me 10 years older. I assume they are talking about limb only? Will the growth affect any other part of my body? Perhaps it could mess up the hormones?
Aging is a very complicated and poorly understood concept even by experts on it. Take what online laypeople say with a grain of salt.
Who says it will make you 10 years older?
Limb lengthening should not affect your biological age.
I think you lose agility and speed as if you were 10 years older, but other than that I don't think it would shorten your life span, it's a bone break and muscle/soft tissues stretching, I don't think that plays a role in life span.
If you care about your lifespan, don't be obese and calorie restrict and eat low carb and be active and that'll do wonders for your lifespan
I agree with this. Not that I'm a medical expert, but I believe even if limb lengthening were to somehow affect one's biological age, there are still many other more important factors that are very controllable (e.g. diet, not smoking, regular exercize).
You are breaking a bone. This will put stress on your body and in a sense make you age, but it shouldn't be too drastic.
Food makes you age too. It's inevitable. I don't think LL has a direct correlation with your lifespan. Many athletes break 3-4 bones in their lifetime and live to be 75-80.
I don't think it affects lifespan in general more than any other surgery that is of this level of invasiveness
But the lifespan of legs, for this I am concerned. Even here there is no veteran of 20+ years afaik to tell us what happened decades down the line
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