Sarcopenia prevention

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Waters DL, Baumgartner RN, Garry PJ et al. (2010) Advantages of dietary, exercise-related, and therapeutic interventions to prevent and treat sarcopenia... 

Let us turn the title of this chapter on its head and consider first the clinical consequences of aging on muscle sarcopenia, a Greek term that simply means "muscle atrophy"), then the theoretical and experimental evidence of mitochondrial involvement in the aging process, and finally the therapeutic measures that can be adopted, if not to prevent, then at least to delay and contain the inevitable occurrence of sarcopenia. 

This stndy shonld be confirmed and extended, bnt it bodes weU as a preventive measnre for sarcopenia, even if it reqnires two of the most nnpopnlar behavioral adaptations in onr spoiled society fasting and exercising. 

Marcell TJ. (2003) Sarcopenia causes, consequences, and preventions. J Gerontol A Biol Sei Med Sei 58(10), M911-6. 

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