The CHAIN study is particularly focussed on improving the lives of older people with many spending their final years in poor health.
Teams worked across the University of Nottingham’s Schools of Life Sciences, Medicine and Physics. That allowed volunteers to spend hours at a time inside the huge MRI scanner and will give researchers a new view on how exercise affects people.
“The journey of discovery is going to be so exciting for us,” said Dr Abhishek Sheth. “We’ll be able to know what happens in response to the changing activity levels to the brain, the heart, the muscle, how the body is changing in its make-up.
“All of this is going to provide us with really good information in order to potentially inform health policy in the future.”