A muscle-wasting condition called sarcopenia affects up to one-third of older adults. The good news is that people with sarcopenia can rebuild their muscle mass.
Meat of the future might be quite different from meat of the past.
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It’s relatively easy to grow a bunch of animal cells to turn into a burger. But to grow a steak made of cultured meat is a trickier task. Bioengineers must create organized, three-dimensional tissues.
Participants undergoing a session of blood-flow-restricted training at the training facility.
An ultra-marathon runner and exercise physiologist describes what it’s like to take part in an ultra-endurance event, and the consequences it had on his body.
Muscle stiffness is a common complaint among older people.
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Children’s muscles recover rapidly from high-intensity exercise, and kids can produce repeated exercise efforts when most of us adults continue to feel exhausted.
Some people experience cramps frequently after vigorous, high-intensity exercise.
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It’s not just elite sportspeople who get muscle cramps. If you’ve ever experienced one, you’ll know how painful they are. But why do we get them, and is there anything to be done?
Is muscle definition now being added to an already impossibly thin ideal?
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The rise of ‘fitspiration’ seems to promote a body that is both impossibly thin and muscular. A new study explores whether this has become a new benchmark for women.
Temperatures in Pyeongchang fall below -10°C at night.
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Here are some of the more popular sports supplements on the market today, separated into categories based on how effective and safe research shows they are.
Many older people complain their aches and pains worsen in the cold.
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These birds spend long periods, often asleep, standing on one leg. Is it passive biomechanics or active nervous system control of their muscles that allows them to do easily what’s impossible for us?
New breakthrough in how to test proteins linked to touch and movement could have major implications for strokes, diabetes, spinal injuries and much more.
The force on a triple jumper’s bones is 15 times their body weight.
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Senior Scientist Team Lead Nutrition Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Team Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University