Dr. Vonda Wright

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Good Life Project · The Midlife Muscle Loss Lie: How to Stay Strong at Any Age | Dr. Vonda Wright · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

And so I'm not talking about pro athletes who may remain active or medal winners.

I'm talking about mere mortal athletes like me who just invest every day in their mobility.

What are we capable of if we take away the variable of sedentary living?

And so what we find is

is starkly different than what we find in sedentary populations who just wait for time to happen, as if longevity is a timeline instead of longevity being built by design.

That's true.

Now, if you find yourself in the sedentary bucket, then we know a lot about what we can predict about your aging and ultimate frailty and the things that happen when we don't use this body that we've been given.

Now...

There are hallmarks of aging, things I call in my book time bombs of aging, that are real.

Biologic processes like senescence, which is – and we can go into this – but senescence essentially means cells are so damaged after their normal lifespan that they don't go into normal apoptosis.

and therefore accumulate and do bad things in our body.

Or let's say telomere length shortening or inflammation.

There are 13 hallmarks of aging that we know.

are normal biologic processes.

But the way that sedentary living fits into that is, number one, nothing's wrong with aging.

It's the way we live.

Number two, there are hallmarks of aging.

But if we choose to not act upon our body's own capacity to modulate how we age and

then we know how that's going to turn out.

But what do we know?

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