@zacksfever: “But doctor, she was so active. She walked every morning.” I hear this from families in the emergency room, usually after a fall that shouldn’t have broken anything. Walking is good for your heart, and I’ll never ask a woman to stop her Saturday aerobics. The problem sits somewhere else. From your 30s the body slowly lets go of muscle. After menopause, bone starts leaving too, quickly. The jogging doesn’t reach that part. Muscle also does quiet work you never see. After you eat, it’s the biggest place your body puts the sugar from your rice, your fufu. When it shrinks, that sugar waits in your blood instead. That’s one reason fasting glucose creeps up in women whose diet never changed. Bone rebuilds when you make it carry something. There’s a study that showed that when postmenopausal women, underwent heavy supervised lifting, and their spine density went UP. And no, you won’t grow muscles like a man. You’d need his testosterone for that. Keep the aerobics. Add something heavy twice a week. That’s the whole prescription.

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