Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vogelzang and this is episode 197.

Today's show is part of our Fitness Friday series and it's another great one.

We've got some excellent Fitness Friday news about how certain proteins linked to longevity may help to increase endurance and combat

frailty in the elderly and we've got a special message from Tivity Health

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But first are Fitness Friday News.

The Not Old Better Show Fitness Friday News.

A new study for Friday News.

A new study from MIT suggests that by activating certain proteins linked to longevity, this process may help to increase endurance and combat frailty in the elderly.

Researchers have reversed age-related endurance loss in mice by treating them with a

compound that promotes new blood vessel growth.

Their study found the compound which reactivates longevity-linked seratin proteins promotes

blood vessel and muscle growth boosting endurance of the elderly mice by up to 80%.

As we all know in the not old better audience as we get older, our endurance declines, in part because our blood vessels lose some of their

capacity to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the muscle tissue, and an MIT-led research team

has now found that it can reverse this age-related endurance loss

in mice by treating them with a compound that promotes new blood vessel growth.

The study found that the compound which reactivates longevity-linked

proteins called sirtuans promotes the growth of blood vessels and muscle boosting

the endurance of elderly mice by up to 80%. If the findings translate to humans, this

restoration of muscle mass could help to combat some of the effects of age-related

frailty which often lead to osteoporosis and other debilitating

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