Rhonda Patrick

Now, to your point about physical activity being the major driver here, I think that's 100% I agree.

I think it's totally true.

And there's so much evidence out there to prove that.

Luke Van Loon's study being one, but also older adults that do engage in resistance training have the same anabolic response to the same amount of protein as younger adults.

It does.

As you're aging, if you're a 65, 70-year-old male listening to this episode and you're engaging resistance training, you're likely not experiencing much anabolic resistance, maybe a little, but not much.

And so you don't necessarily have to experience it if you are physically active and training.

And that's really the bottom line here.

That's the most important thing.

If there's a public health message in this episode, it really is you should be training.

That's a good point.

So the anabolic resistance, if we're talking about general population, again, we're going back to these surveys that are done looking at how physically active are people, because those numbers are out there, right?

We know that generally speaking, adults, including young and old adults, about 32% of them engage in resistance training.

How much?

32, both young and old.

If you just look at older adults, it's 22% of the population.

So essentially, most older adults, most people are not engaging resistance training.

They're not doing resistance training.

Physical activity kind of mirrors a little bit those numbers.

But I think the bottom line here is that putting in the effort, it's harder for people.