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Healthspan, Lifespan, and the Biology of Aging

Raising Health

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Is Aging an Important Factor in Disease?

10 days of bed rest does what? You lose about like 7% of your lean mass if you're past a certain age, right? And importantly too, for a younger person to lose a similar amount of mass would take a couple of months of bed rest. So it's really dramatically accelerated by your age. But you do see substantial changes in the muscle. This is the part that I think most people would be shocked. Usually these studies focus on the thigh. It's your biggest part. The next step would be face to face through trials. Yep. Up to next trials.

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