Scientists discover how exercise reverses muscle aging

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim: muscles are like batteries. You use them up, so after twenty-eight years at this desk, mine are saving what they have left.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentScienceDaily reported on October sixteenth, twenty twenty-six, on research into how exercise can reverse some of the damage of muscle aging.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe focus is a gene called DEAF1. It becomes overactive with age and interferes with the muscle's ability to clear damaged proteins and repair itself.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the gene is the problem. Not the recliner.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentExercise can help restore that balance, so older muscles rebuild and regain strength. Your chair does not appear in the report.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAny catch?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentYes. The report says the benefits may diminish when the system becomes too disrupted. So waiting is not a strategy.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMy ruling is MYTH. Muscles are not batteries, and resting them does not save anything. Talk to your doctor before starting anything new.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine. New belief: my DEAF1 is overactive, so the safest thing for my muscles is to stay very still until it calms down.