Preventing Muscle Poverty

Sarcopenia, a continual, age-related muscle-wasting process, initiates its degenerative impact on health by the third decade of life. Approximately two-thirds of male and one-third of female sexagenarians present overt symptoms of sarcopenia. By 2025, those over 60 years of age will represent nearly 19% of the U.S. population. Among the elderly alone, this condition will directly cost healthcare more than $20 billion.

A combination of neurological factors, nutritional components, some hormones, m…