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Old before your time: When your body really starts going downhill | Mail Online Find a Job M&S Wine Our Papers Feedback Monday, Aug 06 2012 3PM 27°C 6PM 26°C 5-Day Forecast Home News U.S. Sport TV&Showbiz Femail Health Science Money RightMinds Coffee Break Travel Columnists Health Home Health Directory Health Boards Diets MyDish Recipe Finder Login Old before your time: When Site Web your body really starts going downhill Last updated at 7:50 AM on 15th July 2008 Comments (0) Share 1 Tweet 1 Like Confirm There's no denying the ticking of a woman's biological clock - but men are not immune, either. French doctors have found that the quality of sperm starts to deteriorate by 35, so that by the time a man is 45 a third of pregnancies end in miscarriage. Here, with the help of leading clinicians, Angela Epstein identifies the ages when different parts of the body start to lose their battle with time. • BRAIN Starts ageing at 20 FEMAIL TODAY As we get older, the number of nerve cells - or neurons - in the brain decrease. We start with around 100 billion, but in our 20s this number starts to decline. Blooming beautiful! 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Brazier and Nicola T look the picture of http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1035037/Old-time-When-body-really-starts-going-downhill.html[2012/8/6 20:31:04] Old before your time: When your body really starts going downhill | Mail Online • VOICE happiness as they Starts ageing at 65 holiday in Tenerife Looked besotted Our voices become quieter and hoarser with age. The soft tissues in the voice box (larynx) weaken, affecting the pitch, loudness and quality of the voice. Kim Kardashian shows off her A woman's voice may become huskier and lower in pitch, whereas a man's might swimming skills become thinner and higher. during family day... • EYES but even being underwater doesn't Start ageing at 40 stop her sharing Glasses are the norm for many over-40s as failing eyesight kicks in - usually long- bikini snaps! sightedness, affecting our ability to see objects up close. The Presidential As we age, the eye's ability to focus deteriorates because the eyes' muscles become staycation: Hollande weaker, says Andrew Lotery, professor of ophthalmology at the University of leads by example Southampton. with a 'frugal' • HEART summer holiday (but maybe it's best not - Starts ageing at 40 to copy his sweaty The heart pumps blood less effectively style) around the body as we get older. Thanks for the This is because blood vessels become mammaries! less elastic, while arteries can harden or Kourtney Kardashian become blocked because of fatty deposits gets cast made of forming on the coronary arteries - her pregnant form... caused by eating too much saturated fat. as Kris visits her The blood supply to the heart is then mother for first time reduced, resulting in painful in two years angina. £19,500 for a Men over 45 and women over 55 are at signed photograph: greater risk of a heart attack. Fifty years after her A recent study by Lloyds Pharmacy found death Marilyn the average person in the UK has a 'heart Monroe is still a age' five years older than their chronological age, probably due to obesity and lack of huge earner for exercise. clever collectors Her legend lives on • LIVER It's the Mobot! Starts ageing at 70 Farah's Olympic gold This is the only organ in the body which seems to defy the ag ing process. winning celebration takes the nation by 'Its cells have an extraordinary capacity to regenerate,' explain David Lloyd, a storm consultant liver surgeon at Leicester Royal Infir mary. James Corden posted his He says he can remove ha a liver during surgery and it will grow to the size of a attempt on Twitter complete liver within three months. 'Her career is over': If a donor doesn't drink, use drug or suffer from infection, then it is possible to transplant Elton John reignites a 70-year-old liver into a 20-year-old. feud with Madonna • KIDNEYS as he labels her a 'f***ing fairground Starts ageing at 50 stripper' With kidneys, the number of filtering units (nephrons) that remove waste from the Claws were out bloodstream starts to reduce in middle age.