Sarcopenia: How to Prevent Loss of Muscle As You Age

.x-sidebar{display:none;} .x-main{width:100% !important;} Your grandmother probably never heard of osteoporosis. Then Big Pharma came out with the first bone drug in 1995. Now billions are spent on this disease. And everyone worries about bone density. But there is another condition just as threatening. Maybe even more so… but you won’t see any TV ads. Mainstream doctors rarely, if ever, bring it up with their patients… even though it affects around 45% of the older population. I’m talking about sarcopenia… a loss of muscle as you age. Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength associated with aging So why am I the only one telling you about it?  Because there’s no drug to treat it — so there’s no profit for Big Pharma. And while some Big Pharma giants are currently looking for ways to make a buck off sarcopenia, it’s not currently classified as a “disease.” And without that classification, there’s no hope of getting a drug to “cure” it approved by the FDA. If you do nothing to stop sarcopenia, you will lose about three pounds of muscle every decade. By the time you’re 80 you could drop 35% to 40% of your muscle mass.1 But there’s good news. Not only can sarcopenia be stopped in its tracks — it can be reversed. And research proves it.  How To Reverse Sarcopenia In a ground-breaking study, researchers took muscle samples from young adults and older adult...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news