Age is a factor in diminished lung capacity

Dear Doctors: I recently started going to a yoga class at our community center. We were doing deep breathing, and it felt like my lungs weren’t filling up as much as they used to. Do your lungs get less elastic when you get older? Can that be reversed?

Dear Reader: The lungs, which are a pair of balloonlike organs located in the chest cavity, are really quite remarkable. With each inhale, they make…