Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the

health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.

This is a particularly relevant and timely podcast. I have been very transparent with my

community that my dad's recent fall and his rapid decline did not have to happen and so I hope by sharing my father's

story I will inspire others to not only be motivated to ward off sarcopenia and frailty, but encourage their loved

ones to do the same. As I've talked about very openly across social media, my father did not have to die the way that he did and to give

everyone some context and some background before I start answering questions.

My father was always a very thin, relatively healthy individual. As he got older, he became increasingly more sedentary and I watched an acceleration of muscle loss and like many older adults just wasn't eating the way that he should have been was grossly under eating protein was drinking too much

alcohol and we know that when older patients start to lose muscle mass and

they become more frail they have a tendency to become less physically active

and it just becomes this self-perpetuating issue and so my father became more weak and so we know that was sarcopinia

muscle strength is lost first and then muscle mass and then also men go into

Andropause like women going into menopause probably not as dramatic and so with a lot of hormonal changes

the sedentary nature of his lifestyle not being physically active and and certainly losing a tremendous amount of muscle.

He had a series of falls, hit his head multiple times, refused to go to the hospital at least once or twice,

went once and had his head stapled and then on his last hospitalization fell significantly and when they

scanned his head with a cat scan they saw that he had subdural hematomas and for anyone that's

listening that means he had more than one brain bleed so he was admitted to the

trauma ICU and refused surgery and then the second day of his hospitalization actually

neurologically decompensated I suspect he had a stroke and my brother and I

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