Research led by Prof. Geoff Power, Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, was featured in the Globe and Mail May 1. The study examined the long-term advantages of exercising later into life. Power and his team of researchers found octogenarian athletes had about 40 per cent more motor neurons than healthy non-athletes of the same age.
Research by HHNS Prof Featured in Globe and Mail
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