Researchers have found that weak muscles may speed up aging.
Different factors can influence how fast people age. These factors include intrinsic and extrinsic ones. They may also affect the risk that they will develop diseases or die early. Two individuals, both aged 50, may not experience the same biological aging despite living the same number years.
Diet, smoking and sickness are all lifestyle choices that accelerate biological age. Researchers found that grip strength is a measure for overall muscle strength and can be linked to biological age. The study published in the Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle found that those with lower grip strength also had older biological age.
Researchers at Michigan Medicine used three \”age-acceleration clocks\” (based on DNA) to model the relationship between grip strength and biological age of 1,274 older and middle-aged adults.
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