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Weightlifting “Slows” Aging Process in Masters Athletes Weightlifting “Slows” Aging Process in Masters Athletes Written by TEAM MD Weightlifting “Slows” Aging Process in Masters Athletes Between ages 40 and 60, most people lose about 15 percent of their muscle mass. Worse, they lose muscle-nerve connections, so the muscles they have don’t work as well – and many of the fast-twitch muscles convert to weaker, less powerful slow-twitch muscles. Is this inevitable? No, according to a study by Dr. Stephen Pearson and colle...

By ESTHER LANDHUIS Persi Diaconis has spent much of his life turning scams inside out. In 1962, the then 17-year-old sought to stymie a Caribbean casino that was allegedly using shaved dice to boost house odds in games of chance. In the mid-1970s, the upstart statistician exposed some key problems in ESP research and debunked a handful of famed psychics. Now a Stanford professor of mathematics and statistics, Diaconis has turned his attention toward simpler phenomena: determining whether coin flipping is random. Could a simple coin toss -- used routinely to decide which team gets the ball, fo...