Rhonda Patrick

So, this happens.

If this is a younger person, it's much easier to gain back that muscle mass.

It's not the same with an older adult.

It's just not the same.

Even if you're engaging in resistance training after, you're not going to get the same amount of muscle mass back as you've lost.

And these sorts of events happen in periods of time.

There's a planned surgery and there's a fall and maybe there's another surgery or maybe there's COVID or the flu or whatever it is.

They keep hitting and you reach this what's called disability threshold where all of a sudden your parents, they just can't walk much at all anymore.

And it's like all of a sudden it's like, when did this happen?

Well, the evidence was mounting over the last five years when they had these points of inactivity that were occurring.

And so I think people just

don't follow the timeline where it's like they see what's leading up to it before this catabolic crisis occurs, where then they reach this point now where they've just lost so much muscle mass from these several events that have occurred where they're just not mobile.

And then, of course, anabolic resistance is kicking in even more and more and more and everything is just compounding.

And I don't think they've observed the timeline and said, oh, A plus B plus C is getting me to this point.

And so I think that's kind of what happens.

Whereas with Alzheimer's disease, I don't know.

It's just like this disease that everyone knows about.

And it's like, yeah, this one thing causes the problem.

The cliff is coming for sure.

I mean, it's like your retirement fund.