This also produces a surprising twist: the model suggests you should exercise more as you get older, because an older person is more at risk of dying soon, so the benefits are more immediate.
I am not an expert, but I heard a hypothesis that a large benefit from exercising when older is that stronger muscles can prevent injuries (which are more difficult to heal the older you are).
Like, you have a better chance to grab something when you are falling, and avoid breaking a leg, which can lead to hospitalization, pneumonia, and death.
Yeah, that is certainly true. Strength training in particular directly relates to the number of falls in elderly people. Eric Topol writes about this in “Super Agers”, which is where I got the inspiration for the calculator.
Unfortunately, most studies do not distinguish between different kinds of exercise.
I am not an expert, but I heard a hypothesis that a large benefit from exercising when older is that stronger muscles can prevent injuries (which are more difficult to heal the older you are).
Like, you have a better chance to grab something when you are falling, and avoid breaking a leg, which can lead to hospitalization, pneumonia, and death.
Yeah, that is certainly true. Strength training in particular directly relates to the number of falls in elderly people. Eric Topol writes about this in “Super Agers”, which is where I got the inspiration for the calculator.
Unfortunately, most studies do not distinguish between different kinds of exercise.