Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

Rethinking The AGING PARADIGM - full video @JoyKongMD ⬅️ - Dr. Jeffrey Gladden #shorts #longevity

10 Aug 2023 · 0 min

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Short YouTube transcript excerpt featuring Dr. Jeffrey Gladden and another speaker discussing how typical young-adult fitness approaches are insufficient as people age; they emphasize training for quickness to preserve or reactivate fast-twitch muscle fibers in middle and older age. The clip's purpose is to rethink fitness priorities for aging populations and highlight quickness-specific training.

People think about fitness as you need to do this and this and this, and then you'll be good.
When you're 18, lifting some weights and going for a run gets the job done. But when you're in your 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, even in your 40s, you know, if you're not training specifically for quickness, we lose fast twitch muscle fibers as we age. So if you're not training those to bring those back online, you lose that.