All together now: Age is nothing but a number!
You’re only as old as you feel!
Trust us: We’ve heard ‘em all.
And, they’re mostly true.
We asked the experts to tell us what’s possible and when to think twice.
(One of his students is a 68-year-old flight attendant.)
(He also burned 600 calories an hour.)
“Your heart will indeed be challenged.”
“There is no upper age limit for any of our programs,” says company CEO Tom Shelley.
(You do have to be rich: Trips cost $52 million.)
“I got better at it as I went along,” he says.
“Everyone should have a look at space.”
But the cosmic void isn’t friendly to aging bodies the environment aggravates everything frominsomniatoindigestion.
Longer off-planet trips could be even more trouble.
“Prolonged zero gravity can weakenbones,” says Mayo Clinic rheumatologist Shreyasee Amin.
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Too late to be the fall guy?
Injuries that would be a strain to a 25-year-old break bones at 60.
He’s still taking punches at a jaw-dropping 82.
“Every movie star in Hollywood has beaten me up,” he says.
“I’m trying to retire.
I want to start racing motorcycles again.”
Fellow savvy veteran John Force, 66, won his 16th National Hot Rod Association championship in 2013.
How do they keep up?
Force credits an unrelenting practice schedule, while Burkett insists that her reflexes haven’t declined with age.
She might be right, says Roger Ratcliff of Ohio State University’s Cognition and Language Lab.
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