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Physical Activity As We Age: Keeping The Baby Boomer Buff on this podcast we Discuss with Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.Co-Director, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine The physiologic changes that occur with normal aging and describe how exercise can mitigate these effects People over 65 years old in U.S. 1900: 4% 2000: 12% (36 million) 2020: 20% (census estimate) 2030: 70 million (census estimate) 1 in 5 people in U.S. 2050: 1 in 5 people in world over 65 (1.53 billion) Edward R. Laskowski, M.D.Co-Director, Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports laskowski.edward@mayo.edu @DrEdSportsMed