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Podcast: Inside Exercise
Episode: #71 - Aging, inactivity, atrophy and exercise with Professor Sue Bodine
Description: Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Sue Bodine from the Oklahoma Medical ResearchFoundation, Oklahoma, USA. She is an expert on muscle, in particular muscle atrophy with inactivity/aging. We chatted about how with age muscle size is reduced and this is associated with a reduction in muscle fiber size and also a loss of fast muscle fibers. Resistance training (and perhaps intense endurance exercise) can attenuate the rate of muscle atrophy. We discussed how much muscle atrophy is due to age per se and how much is due to inactivity. Anabolic resistance, protein synthesis, the importance of...