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Senior Lecturer, Clinical Biomechanics, Staffordshire University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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We naturally lose muscle mass as we get older. This process starts around the age of 36, and by the time we are 80 we’ve lost about 50% of our muscle mass. Long periods of inactivity can also cause us to lose a greater amount of muscle mass than we might normally. This has been […]

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