The maincause of shrinkingwith age has to do with your bones. As bones weaken with age, they can lose bone density (osteopeniaorosteoporosis). There can be fractures in the spine which can lead to height loss. The space between vertebrae can become smaller, too. Along with changes to your...
Whileage-relatedheightlossisnormal,therearetimeswhenit's asignof anunderlyinghealthcondition. Why do you getshorteras you age? On amacrolevel, you getshorteras you age due tochangesin thebones,musclesandjoints. "Thereare a fewdifferentthingsgoingonhere," Dr.AngelaCatic, ageriatricianandassociatep...
What other symptoms do you have? Then, your doctor will examine the joint to see if it hurts when you move or if you have a reduced range of motion. You may need X-rays or other imaging tests such as MRI or CT scans to look for damage in the bones and tissues of your joint. Yo...
So our bones and muscles weaken. Our skin wrinkles. Our immune system gets weaker. We lose our memory and our senses diminish. There’s no such thing as dying of old age. We all die because one of our important parts breaks. The older we get, the more damaged and fragile we become ...
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except for one puzzling fact: regardless of where the bullets hit or whether said hits are immediately fatal, most people willstilldrop. Stranger still, scientists still aren’t quite surewhy.Welcome to one of the more surprising scientific mysteries of our modern age: why to people drop when...
But there's actually a scientific reason for the surge in appetite, and it mostly has to do with your blood sugar and hunger hormones. Here's what's going on in your body when you eat a big meal at night and wake up hangrier than ever. ...
In the desensitization process, we do training in a quiet, enclosed environment, and start with a very weak version of the problem stimulus. In terms of reactivity toward other dogs, we can use distance to weaken its effect. In this way, we also weaken the strength of our dog’s reaction...
So our bones and muscles weaken. Our skin wrinkles. Our immune system gets weaker. We lose our memory and our senses diminish. There's no such thing as dying of old age. We all die because one of our important parts breaks. The older we get, the more damaged and fragile we become ...
The airways can weaken and begin to collapse with time, leading to difficulty breathing, with dogs needing to put a lot of extra effort into exhaling fully. Chronic bronchitis isn’t curable. However, it can be controlled with bronchodilators, steroids (often given by an inhaler, like human...