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Your Muscles Remember Inactivity – and Aging Makes It Worse

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Your Muscles Remember Inactivity – and Aging Makes It Worse
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New research suggests muscles remember past inactivity at the molecular level. Muscle loss, or atrophy, caused by inactivity can begin surprisingly fast — even after just days of bed rest, injury, or reduced movement. For older adults especially, these periods of inactivity can trigger a downward spiral of weakness, slower recovery, loss of independence, and [...]

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