#170 Movement in Older Adults with Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh
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Strength Balance Aerobic Is Very Practical Thank You Very Much
The first study we did we did muscle biopsies and these nine-year-olds in the nursing home and they had muscle hypertrophy and satellite cells activation. We saw huge increases in iG of one staining in the muscle and anabolic factors for growth so that potential is still there it's just that it hasn't been exploited yet. The most basic thing that we know about the body is that you lose muscle with aging and I think you can avoid it completely but certainly have to go out of your way to do something quite anabolic if not prevent the sarcopenia.
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