Rhonda Patrick· PhD
The heart gets stiffer and shrinks, starting around age 50 to 65.
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The heart gets stiffer and shrinks, starting around age 50 to 65.
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as we start to get into late middle age this would be like 50 to 65 in addition to our heart getting stiffer our heart shrinks so it atrophies and um so our heart is getting smaller and it's getting stiffer
he was he was talking about how as we age our heart becomes stiffer at around early middle age this is like around I guess it was it's more like 35 to 50 years of age