Rhonda Patrick

I'm going to put something in my mouth versus putting in the effort.

It's unfortunate, but it's a reality.

And so I think that even just going back to this RDA being too low, it's just so important.

It's so important because people are out there thinking they're getting enough protein.

Older adults, younger adults, it's really more important with older adults.

You have a little bit of wiggle room when you're younger.

And then on top of that, first of all, it's not enough protein.

And then this anabolic resistance is setting in and most people are not being active.

They're not engaging in resistance training.

So there's all these compounding factors that's really just digging into their muscle.

It's taking away this insidious sort of taking away each year, each year.

And then the next thing you know, you're frail, you have sarcopenia.

For one, I completely agree with the frailty risk being as important, if not more.

And witnessing it with like family members, what I think it is, is that it's like this incremental thing where something happens.

Maybe there's a fall or maybe there's just a surgery, a planned surgery or a hip replacement or a knee replacement.

Your parents or your grandparents are inactive for many weeks and they lose a lot of muscle mass regularly.

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.