Why does aging make you thin? Can you prevent it?
As people get older, their arms and legs become thinner, making them weak with more chances for falls and fractures. Research is now showing why this is happening and how to handle it.
Researchers from Nottingham have been researching about this and had already shown that the food intake by the elderly cannot convert to muscles as fast as in their younger counter parts. Newer research by the same team, has now found that the suppression of muscle breakdown, which also happens during feeding, is blunted with age. They belive that a ‘double whammy’ affects people aged over 65. However the team think that weight training may “rejuvenate” muscle blood flow and help retain muscle for older people.
When they eat they don’t build enough muscle with the protein in food; also, the insulin fails to shut down the muscle breakdown that rises between meals and overnight. Normally, in young people, insulin acts to slow muscle breakdown. Common to these problems may be a failure to deliver nutrients and hormones to muscle because of a poorer blood supply.
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