Articles by Gretchen Reynolds
Exercise is one of the healthiest things we can do for ourselves and our brains. Most science shows that even a few minutes a day of physical activity generally contribute to lower risks for dementiaοΏ½...
To reduce your risks for at least 13 types of cancer, jog up and down the nearest steps for three minutes or stand up fromyour desk or couch for 30.
Either strategy might help drop your risks of cerοΏ½...
Heres why you should be a super mover when you get older.
Super movers, defined by scientists as someone who is able to walk significantly faster than most of their aging peers, are about half as liοΏ½...
A single fall can define how well age, representing a key inflection point in later life, according to a study of 2,454 men and women ages 65 or older, published this month in the Journal of the AmerοΏ½...
If youre a serious runner, tennis player, backpacker, skier or even ballet dancer, youve probably heard from well-meaning strangers that youre going to ruin your knee or hip joint because of all the οΏ½...
Female hormone levels change enormously during the monthly cycle.
But those changes have almost no effect on how well womens muscles respond to weight training, a new study finds.
A few years back, spectators at an intramural indoor soccer game at the University of California at Davis might have seen Keith Baar, a professor of physiology and membrane biology at the university,οΏ½...
Regular exercise during midlife makes brains functionally younger.
Thats the bracing conclusion of a new study of 130 inactive men and women, most in their 40s. Some began a simple, aerobic exercisοΏ½...
Whats the ideal amount of weight training if youd like to live long and well?
In a new study published this month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, scientists set out to find the sweet spotοΏ½...
Are GLP-1 weight-loss drugs hard on your muscles?
That question has sparked controversy and concern among some scientists, doctors and the general public. Several large studies in recent years had sοΏ½...
