What is Ageing? This is a key question: if we want to slow ageing we need to know what we are aiming to influence.
Ageing is a combination of several processes: first loss of power in muscles and joints, leading to frailty. Frailty means being vulnerable to injury or accident because of muscular weakness, loss of physical coordination, which leads to falls etc. The difficulty with the process is that one should become frail, it becomes progressive - because you’re frail you are unable to exercise and retain your strength and therefore your capacity to do things diminishes making you even more vulnerable in a downward spiral. You will have seen this progression in people you have known.
