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[ape]

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?

[Medium Drink Of Water]

Aging is a very complicated and poorly understood concept even by experts on it.  Take what online laypeople say with a grain of salt.

[MakeMeTallAF]

Who says it will make you 10 years older?

Limb lengthening should not affect your biological age.

[Movie]

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.

[ghkid2019]

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

[Jellakaop]

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).

[SartBimpson]

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.

[exceeding2meters]

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