Can you improve health by increasing muscle strength or size?
Emerging clinical studies suggest that, yes, you can.
Loss of muscle mass is one of the inevitable processes of aging, a process that begins in our 40s, only to accelerate over the years.
Everyone already recognizes the extremes of lost muscle: the hunched-over elderly man or woman, weakened by advanced muscle loss leading to poor strength, slow movement, and shrinking height due to bone loss (osteoporosis). Authorities call ...
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