Stay Young - Ep 5: Stay Strong

Michael explores the best way to help you look younger as well as
live longer and healthier – revealing how strength training can
benefit your waistline, preserve muscle fibres and increase
healthy lifespan.


Pumping up your muscles is one of the best ways to protect from
the ravages of time and injury. In this episode, Michael speaks
to Professor Abigail Mackey from the University of Copenhagen in
Denmark, to find out how resistance training can strengthen the
connection between your brain and muscles, and keep them looking
younger at the cellular level. And it’s not just your muscles
that benefit, maintaining your muscle mass can boost your brain
function, improve sleep, and significantly reduce your risk of
diabetes. It may even be better at reducing belly fat than
cardio! Champion weight-lifter Shirley Webb reveals how lifting
weights transformed her life and mobility even though she only
started pumping irons in her mid-70s. Producer: Catherine Wyler
Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Executive Producer: Zoe
Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4