If there’s one myth that has persisted through the years, it’s this: multiply your dog’s age by seven to calculate how old they are.

[Apr 29, 2022: Heather Buschman, UC San Diego Health] The formula provides a new “epigenetic clock,” a method for determining the age of a cell, tissue or organism based on a readout of its epigenetics. (CREDIT: Creative Commons) If there’s one myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, it’s this: multiply your dog’s age by seven to calculate how old they are in “human years.” In other words, the old adage says, a four-year-old dog is similar in physio

One myth that has persisted through the years is this: multiply your dog’s age by seven to calculate how old they are in human years.

One myth that has persisted through the years, without much evidence, is to multiply your dog’s age by seven to calculate age in human years

One myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, is to multiply your dog’s age by seven to calculate how old they are.