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Episode 26: We Age Because We Stop Exercising

The Aging Well Podcast

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Are We Losing Muscle Mass as We Age?

"If I could keep where I'm at right now, for another 30 years, I'm going to be in beast mode," Cooper says. "You're just in a little bit better shaped than everybody else because you've simply maintained your health more effectively." We lose about 10% of our muscle mass from 25 to 50 and we lose another 40% from 50 to 80.

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