The muscle ability you lose fastest with age – and how to preserve it

Gretchen Reynolds
Sep 3, 2026 – 11.17am

You may be losing power right now, at least in your muscles.

That’s because our muscles begin shedding power as we age, a process that typically begins in our 40s and accelerates in later decades.

Washington Post

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