I’m turning 60 in just 12 days and on the one hand there’s this in the news. Thanks Sandra!
On the other hand, there’s also this in the news this week!
Just as I’d been successfully talking myself into the view that aging is aging, as my dad would say, it beats the alternative, and there’s nothing magical about sixty, I read this.
“We’re not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes,” said Michael Snyder, PhD, professor of genetics and the study’s senior author. “It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s. And that’s true no matter what class of molecules you look at.”
Read more here.
Yikes!!!
What to do? There’s no big surprises.
“I’m a big believer that we should try to adjust our lifestyles while we’re still healthy,” Snyder said.
Regular movement, high intensity exercise, lifting heavy things, spend time in community with friends and family, read, relax, get lots of sleep, practise gratitude. All the usual things.
All good, I guess.
Other fitness things I read this week.
🎈Why swimming might be the best exercise there is
🎈HIIT workouts linked with better brain health, research finds – even five years later
🎈Stop The Clock: The Shocking Truth About Age-Related Muscle Loss and Steps to Fight Back
So swimming, some high intensity exercise, and lifting heavy things.
I’ve got this!
