Katri Ruutu
katriruutu.bsky.social
Katri Ruutu
@katriruutu.bsky.social
Exercise physiologist and doctoral researcher (physical activity & exercise and biological aging)

XAGE exercise intervention study
Helsinki Birth Cohort Study
@Folkhälsan Research Center
🤜 Our recent study summarized: Staying physically active with age can help to slow down biological aging.

research.folkhalsan.fi/news-article...
Staying physically active with age can help to slow down biological aging
Physical activity in late midlife can slow down metabolomics-based biological aging – but you need to move twice as much as currently recommended in the physical activity guidelines.
research.folkhalsan.fi
May 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📢 The first article of my doctoral thesis is now published in Aging Cell!

💡Our study reveals how physical activity in late midlife predicts 16-year changes in metabolomics-based markers of biological aging.

@folkhalsanresearch.bsky.social
Associations Between Leisure‐Time Physical Activity and Metabolomics‐Based Markers of Biological Aging in Late Midlife: Short‐Term and Long‐Term Follow‐Up
PA may delay the onset of age-related diseases by decelerating biological aging. We found that higher self-reported amounts of PA in late midlife and device-based PA in old age were associated with i....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Katri Ruutu
Interested in research on the benefits of movement and physical activity? We recommend the seminar Health promotion through movement, activity, and joy throughout life, where our researchers @elinaengberg.bsky.social, Katri Ruutu, and Eva Roos will participate.
www.arcada.fi/en/event/eve...
Nordic seminar: Health promotion through movement, activity and joy throughout life
A large part of children and adults worldwide are not physically active enough, and the trend appears to be increasing. Sedentary lifestyles are one of our major public health problems. A particular c...
www.arcada.fi
February 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM