Rhonda Patrick

All right, so I think that wraps up our section on aerobic exercise training.

We really covered a lot of ground here.

This is all covered in our How to Train According to the Experts guide, along with a variety of protocols, more detailed information.

Again, you can find that at howtotrainguide.com.

We're going to move on to resistance training.

This is another area that

very important for longevity and also an area that I've actually focused a lot more on in the last year.

You know, it really happened after I started having experts in this field of muscle protein synthesis, muscular health, professors like Dr. Stuart Phillips, Dr. Brad Schoenfeld, even experts like Dr. Lang Norton as well.

Having them on the podcast and just hearing about all the important aspects of maintaining strength, maintaining mass with age really was eye-opening for me.

And so I became...

I dedicated a lot more effort and time into resistance training over the last year.

Really, some of the statistics that Dr. Stewart had called out on the podcast were kind of scary.

First of all, he mentioned that your peak muscle mass occurs between the age of 20 and 30.

For me, it was quite a while ago.

I mean, you're reaching that point, but that's your peak.

And then after that peak, you start to decline on average about 8% per decade.

So this age-related decline in muscle mass is...

is often referred to as sarcopenia.

And there's a lot of elements that can contribute to that, which I will not get into.

But so 8% per decade.