Who Gets to Get Stronger?

For a long time, lifting weights belonged to a small club: athletes, bodybuilders, people chasing a certain look. Everyone else was told to walk. Today, strength training is something doctors recommend at every age. Dr. Roger Fielding is one of the researchers who helped make that shift happen. Roger is a Senior Scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He has spent his career studying how muscle changes as we age, and what keeps it working. Anna and Andy talk with him about why the science arrived long before the advice did, what sarcopenia is and why it's a word so few of us ever hear from a doctor, and how to sort what's real from what's noise in today's conversation about protein, creatine, wearables, and more. The Long Run is a NeverStop podcast. Guest views are their own.