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How muscle helps to build a healthy immune system – Sydney Morning Herald
In older people, the combination of shrinking muscle and declining immunity (often compounded by excess fat) is a perfect storm for a compromised immune system.
Strength training using weights or resistance bands at the gym or at home is the obvious way to build and maintain muscle. But it also helps to fit muscle-strengthening moves into our daily lives, says Kate Edwards. Stair climbing is one, fast walking uphill is another. So is using a sit-stand desk. The benefit isnt just that youre not sitting all the time but the action of moving from a standing to a sitting position and back again is the same as doing a squat, she says.
As for walking downsta…
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