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The Staircase
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In 1966, five healthy young men in Dallas spent three weeks in bed. When they got up, they had lost more aerobic fitness than the next three decades of aging would take from them.12
Nothing had been done to them. Something had been taken away: the daily signal that a body is being used. Take away a signal and the system that reads it drifts, fast. Restore it and the system answers, often within weeks.
What this topic covers
- ·Six Billion Steps
- ·What Mismatch Means
- ·The Luxury Trap
- ·Contemporaries, Not Fossils
- ·Who Is Writing
- ·How to Read This Book
- ·Where to Start
The practical version is in the book: Prologue, The Staircase.
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- 12.Saltin, B., Blomqvist, G., Mitchell, J.H., Johnson, R.L., et al. (1968). "Response to exercise after bed rest and after training." Circulation, 38(5 Suppl), VII1-78. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5696236/; Mitchell, J.H., Levine, B.D., and McGuire, D.K. (2019). "The Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study: revisited after 50 years." Circulation, 140(16), 1293-1295. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.041046; McGuire, D.K., Levine, B.D., Williamson, J.W., Snell, P.G., et al. (2001). "A 30-year follow-up of the Dallas Bedrest and Training Study: I. Effect of age on the cardiovascular response to exercise." Circulation, 104(12), 1350-1357. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11560849/ (five healthy 20-year-old men; see Chapter 6)
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