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title: Muscle LOSS leads to DISEASE (part 2)
description: Sarcopenia has its relevance as the disease creator after 30 years.  Neuro resistance training helps reduce its effects and increase longevity and vitality
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# [Muscle LOSS leads to DISEASE (part 2)](https://blog.bodiworksinstitute.com/blog/muscle-loss-leads-to-disease-part-2)

 Written by [the BODiWORKS Institute team](https://blog.bodiworksinstitute.com/blog/author/the-bodiworks-institute-team) | Mar 10, 2020 3:48:30 PM

Unfortunately much of what are told to do

(*which appears to be the easiest things*) **is** **ineffective** for preventing or reversing Sarcopenia.

**Things like:**

-no resistance chair exercises

-walking

-light swimming or group aquafit

-light weight circuit training

The above has health value, just not for treating muscle loss (sarcopenia).

Now that we *know*...

            **WHAT do we *do*?**

First we need to further understand more about muscle loss:

- *With age* changes in skeletal muscle fiber type and size occur with a decrease of Type 2 (fast twitch) and fat tissue infiltration into the muscle (Walston, 2012)
- After the age of 30, adults begin to lose 3-8% of their muscle mass every decade which results in a loss of muscle strength and power in addition to reduced mass (English & Paddon-Jones, 2012).
- Up to 50% of muscle mass can be lost by the 8th decade (Walston, 2012)

**Muscle weakness is:**

...consistently reported as an independent risk factor for **high mortality** in older adults

...the most important cause of functional decline and **loss of independence** in older adults (Walston, 2012)

 

...associated with impaired mobility and an increased **risk of accidental falls** and disability resulting in a decreased quality of life (Deschenes, 2004; Wong, 2016

...VERY Treatable!

The pictures to the **right** are of a 60yr old women and

an 80 yr old woman's muscle fiber.  It shows the increase in fat, and decrease in muscle, with age.  Also, the graph to the right charts the neurological decline in the muscle fibers which is significant over an aging lifetime.  
**The Key is:** **with Age specific Neuro-Resistance Training we can offer an effective countermeasure to this decline !**

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