<story><title>Stronger hands lengthen your life</title><url>https://www.axios.com/hand-grip-strength-falling-deaths-8dfd77a1-0561-41be-8359-12532af948ce.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcdermott</author><text>This article has a bad &amp;quot;pop science&amp;quot; feel to it. The correlation between grip and survival is probably solid enough, but it&amp;#x27;s hard to avoid the nagging feeling that people who have a strong grip are probably stronger and healthier overall as well.&lt;p&gt;The article goes on to recommend grip strengthener and I strongly suspect that better skeletal-muscular health in general should be the goal.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.&amp;quot; --Mark Rippetoe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kleene_op</author><text>Yes. The correct take from this article is to change your lifestyle until you have strong hands if you want to live longer, but don&amp;#x27;t focus on getting strong hands specifically.</text></comment>
<story><title>Stronger hands lengthen your life</title><url>https://www.axios.com/hand-grip-strength-falling-deaths-8dfd77a1-0561-41be-8359-12532af948ce.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmcdermott</author><text>This article has a bad &amp;quot;pop science&amp;quot; feel to it. The correlation between grip and survival is probably solid enough, but it&amp;#x27;s hard to avoid the nagging feeling that people who have a strong grip are probably stronger and healthier overall as well.&lt;p&gt;The article goes on to recommend grip strengthener and I strongly suspect that better skeletal-muscular health in general should be the goal.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.&amp;quot; --Mark Rippetoe.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dillondoyle</author><text>I generally love Axios, but this does feel more life hacking newsletter than hard news.&lt;p&gt;But the article does talk about risk of falling too which. seems like a fair logical causation jump that stronger hands = less risk of falling injury. They don&amp;#x27;t cite that though....&lt;p&gt;I think they should have used the line from the harvard link they put &amp;quot;these findings highlight the importance of doing regular exercise to maintain strong muscles as you age. &amp;quot;</text></comment>