{"id":223258,"date":"2025-10-11T07:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/holocene-skeletal-samples-challenge-link-between-sedentary-lifestyles-and-age-related-bone-weakening"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:08:18","slug":"holocene-skeletal-samples-challenge-link-between-sedentary-lifestyles-and-age-related-bone-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/holocene-skeletal-samples-challenge-link-between-sedentary-lifestyles-and-age-related-bone-weakening","title":{"rendered":"Holocene skeletal samples challenge link between sedentary lifestyles and age-related bone weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/holocene-skeletal-samples-challenge-link-between-sedentary-lifestyles-and-age-related-bone-weakening3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research led by Vladim\u00edr Sl\u00e1dek sheds new light on how bones age, questioning long-standing assumptions that sedentary lifestyles are the primary cause of weakening bone strength in modern humans.<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzed 1,881 adult humeri, femora, and tibiae from European Holocene populations to examine how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bone+strength\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone strength<\/a> and structure change with age. Surprisingly, researchers found that patterns of diaphyseal (shaft) aging were consistent across both Early and Late Holocene adults\u2014despite significant differences in physical activity levels between the two groups. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adx7981\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings suggest that lifestyle differences may not fully explain age-related declines in bone strength,\u201d said Dr. Sl\u00e1dek. \u201cInstead, the biology of bone growth and aging itself plays a critical role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research led by Vladim\u00edr Sl\u00e1dek sheds new light on how bones age, questioning long-standing assumptions that sedentary lifestyles are the primary cause of weakening bone strength in modern humans. The study analyzed 1,881 adult humeri, femora, and tibiae from European Holocene populations to examine how bone strength and structure change with age. Surprisingly, researchers found [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}