Metabolic Menu

Wow! How many of us feel like this? How many of us know how to find our way back? How does this resonate with you? Does it Make you sad or happy?

Can you teach an old muscle new tricks?

“Age is just a number.”

This sentiment gets one important detail completely wrong:

Age is a lot of numbers.

Weight. Heart rate and blood pressure. Glucose, cholesterol, and triglycerides. Vitamin, mineral, and hormone levels.

Once you hit your 60s, most of them start moving in the wrong direction, if they haven’t already.

Deeply intertwined with those numbers is one that’s almost never measured: skeletal muscle mass.

Age-related muscle loss leads to a decline of strength and functional ability, which in turn leads to a higher risk of falls and any number of chronic health conditions

With a smaller, weaker, less healthy, and less functional body, it’s only a matter of time before an elderly person loses independence.

But is that decline inevitable?

In a nutshell:

As we age we should train less and recover more
Focus on strength above all else
And optimise protein intake

PS having a senior recovery moment