{"id":150255,"date":"2025-11-20T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150255\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:26:11","slug":"real-health-my-parents-80s-started-weights-in-january-and-the-results-are-transformational-ageing-expert-clare-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/150255\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Health: \u2018My parents (80s) started weights in January and the results are transformational\u2019 &#8211; Ageing expert Clare Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67a47764-e305-4b2c-b174-055c6f18337c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">How do we age so we are more independent? What exercises should we focus on? And how do we improve mobility from our 40\u2019s onwards?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Clare Johnston, journalist and creator of the \u2018Rebuilding Mum and Dad\u2019 series on the Honest Channel on YouTube, joins Karl on this week\u2019s episode of The Real Health podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Clare spoke about how she became interested in the topic of ageing. She says, \u201cI got more interested in skincare and I took it down that route of looking good as we age and then of course, as I started interviewing experts and getting into the science of it. The reality dawned on me that this is a head-to-toe job. This is aging from within and the superficial side of it slid away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The broadcaster told me about the importance of muscle as we age. She pointed out, \u201cThe reality is, I think we all thought we would reach a point in life of no return. When you&#8217;re in your eighties, if you&#8217;re frail, you can&#8217;t reverse frailty. But that&#8217;s exactly what gaining muscle can do and we can all regain it, which is fantastic. It&#8217;s such a positive message. We don&#8217;t have to become frail, so it&#8217;s been something of a revelation to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You can listen to the full episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How do we age so we are more independent? What exercises should we focus on? And how do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[499,103,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-150255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}