Some say wait till you are over thirty-five to start thinking about your muscles. But really the earlier you start the better. What ever muscle you have developed by that point is your starting point for life. After around that age, we start to lose muscle unless we actively work to retain it. Up to 8% a decade. This is not about looking better on the beach. Not because I think everyone should join a gym. And certainly not because I think we should all become bodybuilder

Prostate testing guidelines have changed. What does it mean for you?

By Dr Mick Watts MBBS MRCGP (Dr Mick Watts is a GP in Windsor with a particular interest in men’s health, healthy ageing and lifestyle medicine.) My aim with these blogs is to explore men’s health in a way that is useful not only to men, but also to the people who live with them, love them, work with them and care for them. The way men respond to health and wellbeing is often shaped by our maleness. Not just by biology, but by the expectations we absorb from childhood onwards