Stay Young - Ep 5: Stay Strong
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
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The Importance of Muscle Stem Cells in Aging
Muscle stem cells are essential for repair of muscle. So what you're seeing here, the growth of stem cells and all these other changes, certainly appear to be turning back the clock - effectively making people younger. I'd perhaps turn it around and say that an inactive lifestyle has become the norm for many people. And we actually don't know how much you can turn back the clock. We should try to be as active as possible throughout our lives. If you keep on doing exercise, then at the very least what it's going to do is delay biological aging.
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