senior life | SAVING MUSCLE
Preventing
MUSCLE LOSS
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Why does muscle loss take place as we age?
Some of the reasons include:
gender diet changes loss of nerve slow down genetic not enough
differences
As we age, many of
cells of muscle differences muscle-
Women start out
us eat less. And, in
In addition to losing
metabolism
Some people just
stimulating
with less muscle,
particular, we eat
brain cells as we age,
Our ability to make
have good genes. exercise
so when they lose
less protein.
we also lose motor
muscle protein
If we don’t do
it, there are bigger nerve cells that send
decreases as we age.
the right kind of
consequences. messages to our
physical activity
muscles.
regularly, our
muscles start to
deteriorate at the
rate of over 10
percent per decade.
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