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Workers in their 50s with physical injuries are thus receiving disability benefits “when they don’t need to be,” given that they could get a more sedentary job in the modern economy.

For starters, older bodies — especially after years of a sedentary lifestyle — are more susceptible to injuries.

Given increases in the average human lifespan, the existing age cutoffs that presume a 50-year-old who can perform only sedentary work is disabled while a 49-year-old is not represent loose standards that need modernization.

Out of 175 metabolites analyzed in sedentary rats, 100 were significantly affected.

“Protection here simply means don’t do too much too soon, but also don’t get too comfortable being sedentary either,” Rothstein says.