Healthy ageing starts with the legs [Video]

The clip is from my recent talk in Muscat, Oman for Marathi Mandal, urging people to help their ageing parents get more active. This is where they need most help because the wheel chair at the airport is not going to solve the problem of ageing. And active ageing is a priceless gift.

As we age, we lose muscle mass. We don’t have to get very old, the process starts as early as 30, as we begin losing 3-8% every 10 years. But the rate of decline gets even faster post 60.

Almost all the problems related to age – loss of confidence, memory, bladder control and even blood pressure, blood sugar regulation, poor recovery, etc., can be attributed to this phenomenon.

The good news though is that you can both arrest and reverse this to a large extent with strength training. The older you get, the more critical it gets to exercise. Start with atelast once a week of strength training exercises and keep up with your walks, yoga.

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