So this is why I act like a a 12 year old! ;)
"As Melov puts it, "The genetic fingerprint [of the elderly participants] was reversed to that of younger people--not entirely, but enough to say that their genetic profile was more like that of young people than old people.""
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18808971/site/newsweek/
I just turned 30 and still look like I'm in high school.
Have read it completely but skimmed over the BBC version yesterday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6680621.stm
"We know that people in their 90s can regain lost muscle tissue and lost muscle strength with quite a modest amount of exercise."
I hope I'm still training when I'm 90!
:)
I am 67 and still look like shit.
Grandpab