Dr. William Evans – Why Muscle Mass is a Marker of Longevity
Longevity by Design
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Is Lean Body Mass Related to Mortality?
Doctor hellerstein and i have always used, throughout our careers, what are called stable isotope tracers to map where and how a metabolite might be used in the body. And it turns out that all of the creatine, you know, you've heard about creatined, all the creatine in your body is in muscle. In fact, muscle doesn't make creatine. Its made by the liver and the kid it's actively taken up by the muscle. Our idea was: You give some one a little capsule, you take a urine sample later on, and you know exactly how much muscle some one has. It works better than we could have ever hoped it. So now we've
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