How old is Chuando Tan?
Chuando Tan is 60 years old, born on March 3, 1966, in Singapore.
Here's the answer from Mary's digital twin. The gray check mark turns green once Mary has confirmed it.
Chuando Tan is the Singaporean photographer and former model who went viral for looking about half his age, and as of today, September 20, 2026, he is 60. He turned 60 earlier this year in March, which sent the internet into its usual round of disbelief.
The reason people know his age at all is because the gap between it and his appearance is the whole story. He first went viral at 51, and the shock has not worn off since.
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How does he look so young?
He has said it himself: 70 percent diet, 30 percent exercise, and nothing exotic about either.
Tan often summarises his approach as "seventy percent is diet and the other thirty percent is exercise." No secret compound, no elaborate medical protocol. The boring answer is the right one.
What he actually eats
A typical breakfast is six hard-boiled eggs, with two yolks removed to manage cholesterol. Beyond that, his dietary exclusions matter as much as what he includes. He avoids processed sugars, excessive refined carbohydrates, and processed foods generally. Here is why that matters: when you eat a lot of refined sugar, your body produces compounds called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs. AGEs are harmful compounds that form in the body from high sugar intake, and can also form in foods during high-heat cooking or processing. They degrade collagen, which is the protein that keeps skin firm and elastic. Cut the sugar, and you slow that process down considerably.
He avoids coffee and tea, prefers pure water for hydration, eats early dinners to allow for proper digestion, and avoids alcohol and tobacco entirely. Each of those is a known accelerant of ageing when done in excess.
What he does with his body
His fitness routine includes strength training a few times a week and almost daily swimming, with brisk treadmill walks substituting for running due to a knee injury. Strength training matters here because muscle mass is one of the strongest predictors of how you look and move as you get older. Most people lose it quietly after 30 and never replace it.
What he does not do
He tried Botox once around his eyes, did not like the results, and stopped. He openly acknowledges real signs of ageing, including presbyopia, and dyes his hair to cover the grey. The point being that he is not some airbrushed exception to biology. He is working with the same biology as everyone else.
He avoids complex supplement programs and relies mainly on vitamin C capsules as an antioxidant for body repair.
The part most people skip
Adequate sleep and stress management are non-negotiable parts of his approach. You cannot out-diet a stressful lifestyle or a lack of sleep. Stress raises cortisol, which drives inflammation, which shows up in your skin and your body over time. The exercise and the clean eating only work if the recovery is there too.
None of this is a hack. It is a decade of consistent decisions compounding quietly, which is the part that never goes viral.
Your story is still being written, whatever the number says.
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