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Associate Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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50-Year-Old Muscles Just Can’t Grow Big Like They Used To – The Biology of How Muscles Change With Age Your Health

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There is perhaps no better way to see the absolute pinnacle of human athletic abilities than by watching the Olympics. But at the Winter Games this year – and at almost all professional sporting events – you rarely see a competitor over 40 years old and almost never see a single athlete over 50. This […]

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