Sticks and stones may break your bones — but they won’t heal as easily past a certain age.

New research has found the “point of no return” when we no longer recover as well from illness and injury, no matter how strong and healthy you may feel .

A new study has found an average age where we can’t recover from injury and illness as easily. Lisa F. Young – stock.adobe.com

According to researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada, once we hit around the age of 75, the body can’t recover as well as it once did from adverse events.

Researchers measured the health of nearly 13,000 people with an average age of 67 based on more than 30 attributes, including chronic diseases, cardiovascular conditions and how they performed activities.

They used the Frailty Index , a tool that measure

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