Hey friends, welcome back.

In today's show, we're going to talk more about muscle mass changes with age and highlight

a recently published review that changed my perception about what happens as we age and

highlights the importance of maintaining strength as we get older and continuing the exercises

that we do when we're younger throughout lifespan.

The title of the paper that we're going to really dive into today and talk all about

anabolic resistance, age-related changes in muscle function as well as metabolism,

insulin resistance is titled age-related changes in muscle architecture and metabolism

and humans, the likely contribution of physical inactivity of age-related functional

decline.

And so I think a lot of people have this perception myself included that as you get older,

you just naturally lose muscle.

You get weaker, you get smaller, and all the consequences of losing that muscle mass

lead to aberrations and blood glucose control and poor fat metabolism and immobility and

the need to depend upon others for daily functions, getting up and going to the bathroom

and all that care givers and so forth.

But this paper highlights an interesting confounding factor and that is as people get older

because of their lifestyle, whether it's kids, job obligations, they naturally move less

and that's likely a bigger contributor to the age associated loss in muscle strength

and size.

And so the take home here is that as you get older, you should focus and prioritize

resistance training exercise in the same way that you did when you were a young athlete

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