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Late-Life Exercise May Slow the Effects of Aging

01/27/2022

In a study of 2-year-old mice who performed two months of progressive weighted wheel running, it was determined that the mice were the same epigenetic age as mice eight weeks younger.

The study, “Late-Life Exercise Mitigates Skeletal Muscle Epigenetic Aging,” was published in Aging Cell and suggests that exercise may keep humans not just looking younger, but physically younger on an epigenetic level.

Read more at sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220121124840.htm.

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