Peter Attia· MD
in the same period of time an older adult in bed rest will lose four times as much muscle as a younger adult
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in the same period of time an older adult in bed rest will lose four times as much muscle as a younger adult
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in the same period of time an older adult in bed rest will lose four times as much muscle as a younger adult
I mean within three weeks I was 10 pounds lighter I lost 10 lb of body weight yeah and it's obviously not just from the shoulder it's when you don't have an arm you can't squat you can't deadlift you can't do all of these other things so I I would bet that you know obviously some of that was water weight but look I think seven of those 10 pounds was lean tissue that I lost in in a span of three weeks
a group of 65 year olds I believe were immobilized for two weeks and lost if I'm not mistaken something of the neighborhood of about 4 lbs of lean mass in 2 weeks
then in in in people who were compromised or you know are actually going through surgery these declines can even be greater