sarcopenia

The thing with muscle is that the changes of muscle are subtle over time.

Sarcopenia, when we think about the definition of sarcopenia, it's really roughly a 4% loss per decade.

Maybe it's a little bit, but that's 10 years.

It's not that much.

I said, the other part of it is that I want to age really well.

I know that muscle will help me avoid a lot of problems later on with osteoporosis or sarcopenia.

Sarcopenia is a loss of skeletal muscle, which then leads to imbalance, which then leads to falls.

I said, I want to be able to take care of myself as long as possible.

And I know muscle is the biggest way to do that.

Yeah, that's really good news to hear.

So I wanted to talk a little bit about the recent news update, this SLAB or SLAB trial, which is the Sarcopenia and Longevity in Aged Beagles.

There was a big update, as I said recently, in that Age Beagle trial where GenFlow says it met its primary endpoint and saw a reduction in biological age versus the control group.

So I want to just get to the bottom of it.

One was longevity.

The L in slab, and sarcopenia.

Sarcopenia is loss of muscles.

You have a dog.

It has to be intentional.

And that realization usually hits right around the time people first encounter the term sarcopenia.

Sarcopenia, right?

Yeah.

Sarcopenia is basically the gradual natural loss of muscle mass and muscle strength that accelerates as we age.

But what really matters here is the mechanism driving it.

Right, because it's not just the calendar pages turning, right?

BMI becomes way more important the older you become, and here's why.

Because as you get older, sarcopenia begins to kick in from your early 30s.

What is sarcopenia, you might ask? Sarcopenia is the eating away of your muscle tissue, in simple terms.

It's the old age process kicking in.

If you've ever seen an old man, your father, your grandfather, and you've seen pictures of him when he was in his 30s or 40s, he might have played football, he was as strong as an ox, and now you look at him as an 80-year-old man, right? That's the same man, but their body is very different.

That's the fact.

And I've just told you why.

Sarcopenia is already kicking in.

Okay.

Sarcopenia, it's loss of muscle.

Mm.

It's potentially dementia.

Back to Intelligent Medicine, Dr. Ronald Hoffman here.

Here's an interesting study on magnesium entitled Associations of Magnesium Intake and a Magnesium-Rich Diet Score with Sarcopenia in Middle-Age and Older Korean Adults.

And so sarcopenia, the age-related decline in lean body mass, deterioration of your musculature, which leads to frailty.

And what they found was that the more magnesium people consumed from either supplements or plant foods, the lower their risk was of sarcopenia.