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Ageing (Part II): not without a fight
Welcome back to our exploration of ageing and strength. To recap, in part I of this article (here if you haven’t read it) we conceptually mapped out the ageing landscape as follows: Ageing is a multifactorial, complex process involving virtually all biological pathways For each individual, there likely exists an ideal ‘healthy’ ageing trajectory and…
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Ageing (Part I): a downward(?) trajectory
Its 6am, another orange-soaked spring morning in 2008, Nanjing, China. I’m 3 feet away, gazing at an elderly gentleman who is upside down, supported only by the tip of his skull, arms crossed, legs delicately wrapped around a vertical bar. I learn that he is 84 years old, and that he often likes to hang…