Resistance Training Key to Preventing Muscle Loss

Resistance Training Key to Preventing Muscle Loss
"A prescription of exercise remains the gold standard." Supersizer/Getty Images
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Australian researchers are advising people to start early with a personalised regimen of exercises—rather than medication—to prevent muscle loss in old age.

Geriatrician Jesse Zanker from the University of Melbourne says the age-related loss of strength and mobility in which muscles begin losing their youthful bulk starting from about the age of 30, is largely preventable.

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Jessie Zhang is a reporter based in Sydney, Australia, covering news on health and science.
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