Dr. Andy Galpin
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first heard Jun 2024
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So the loss of strength is almost double that.
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The loss of muscle mass with aging.
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Muscle power is more like eight to ten percent per year.
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And so we can very clearly see the problem you're going to have with aging is not going to be preservation of muscle, although that is incredibly important.
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It's going to be very specifically preservation of muscle power and strength.
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And why that really matters is your ability to again stand up and move, your ability to catch yourself from a fall, your ability to feel confident doing a movement.
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That is a function of muscle power more than it is muscle size.
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And so functionality is really what we want to be, right?
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You want to be able to do whatever you want to be do physically.
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and feel confident in doing that.
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as you age.
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That's going to only be obtained through strength training.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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It it is the only exercise route we have for that.
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The wonderful thing about strength training
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Is you don't actually have to start at a young age.
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In fact, I was reading a paper this morning because of our previous conversation.
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It was in over age ninety.
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So these are folks 90 plus and they saw uh improvements like 30 to 170% in things like muscle size and hypertrophy over a very short period of time.
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I think it was 12 weeks.
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