Dr. Wendy Bazilian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Um yet the hand may be telling us something about the broader reserve of our whole body.
So in a twenty twenty four analysis of nearly ten thousand US adults that were participating in the National Health and Nutrition Survey, NHANES it's called, lower grip strength, so reduced grip grip strength was associated with higher risk of death from all causes.
Even after accounting for other factors that influence health.
Lower grip strength associated with higher risk of death from all causes.
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Not so much.
That finding doesn't exist alone.
Researchers that have been analyzing data um on this very same thing in other papers and studies and laboratories.
Um one research group analyzed data for more than a hundred and seven thousand adults over the age of fifty across twenty eight countries and found that even relatively small differences in strength between your two hands, difference between your two hands was associated with higher risk of all cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality.
That's due to cardiovascular health issues.
And while that study examined grip strength asymmetry, like between your two hands, rather than grip strength itself.
It adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that the strength we carry through our day daily life, our reserve, maybe telling us more than we once realized.
And again, just like with balance or the floor, researchers aren't particularly interested in the hand itself.
They're interested in what
This test or what the hand may reveal about the body's larger reserve.
And grip strength is one of the things I never gave gave much thought to until I started noticing how many people intentionally train it in certain areas.
Musicians, my spouse, a drummer, he he engages his grip strength with fitness gadgets that he he engages just sort of as like.
Not like a active fitness plan, but just, you know, when he's doing uh in between things.
Um, climbers do this.
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