What if an MRI could reveal, not just your current health, but also your future health? Scientists out of Duke University, Harvard University and New Zealand’s University of Otago are investigating ways brain scans can measure how fast a person is aging.

The results?

“Our jaws just dropped to the floor,” Duke University professor of psychology and neuroscience Ahmad Hariri explained in a news release .

“The link between aging of the brain and body are pretty compelling.”

Hariri and colleagues analyzed data from 1,037 people to form their conclusions, which published this month in Nature Aging . The subjects had all been part of the Dunedin Study since birth, which meant decades of data on their changes in blood pressure, body mass index, glucose, cholesterol and more was readily

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