Energy For Life | Aging Matters | NPT Reports
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Staying physically active can delay frailty and reduce the risk of falling.
Energy is the stuff of life, and it's generated within our cells. By staying physically active, we can boost our energy and delay age-related frailty and the risk of falling.
Aging Matters is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Energy For Life | Aging Matters | NPT Reports
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Energy is the stuff of life, and it's generated within our cells. By staying physically active, we can boost our energy and delay age-related frailty and the risk of falling.
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(uptempo music) (guitar music) - So you can imagine that as we age if we're declining and our strength, our endurance, our energy levels that at some point we reach a threshold, we call it the frailty threshold, where we begin to lose the ability to engage in just normal activities of daily living.
I can tell a big difference when I go several days without exercising which happens sometimes because of my schedule but I just get to feeling so sluggish, decreased energy.
It's the movement and the exercise that really keeps me having a strong sense of wellbeing.
The reason that we want to keep our energy level up is because we have these energy engines in the cells of our body and they're specially abundant in our muscles and our brain.
In the skeletal muscles, we have to keep that energy level up to keep our muscles from breaking down.
I began by just, you know, short walks out in nature.
And I have just grown that over the years from short walks, to longer walks to jogging, to running.
And now, I regularly run three times a week.
It really, really helps maintain my energy level.
But if we do that, we maintain that energy level and we use our muscles, then we can keep our muscles strong as we age and keep ourselves at this steady state all the way out close to the very end of our lives.
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