There’s no time like the present for thinking about the ‘future you’. Science has told us what we can expect to happen to our bodies as we check in to midlife and beyond, but there are steps we can take right now that will determine our youthfulness over the next 10 or 20 years.

‘It is inevitable that we will all age, yet how well and at what rate is a factor we have more control over than we think,’ says functional nutritionist Pauline Cox (author of , £27, Ebury Press). Here’s what