Andrew Huberman· PhD
the problem you're going to have with aging is not going to be preservation of muscle although that is incredibly important it's going to be very specifically preservation of muscle power and strength
Loading…
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
the problem you're going to have with aging is not going to be preservation of muscle although that is incredibly important it's going to be very specifically preservation of muscle power and strength
Every Sunday: the week’s new conflicts and verdict changes — and nothing else.
Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
people will tend to hear numbers like you lose about 1% of muscle size per year after age about 40 and that's true however what they don't realize is you lose about 2 to 4% of your strength per year so the loss of strength is almost double that the loss of muscle mass with aging muscle power is more like 8 to 10% per year
if you pay attention to declines in physical performance over time and I mean that like through aging what you'll see is people can hold on to muscle mass pretty well um it will go down by about you know 1% or so after the age of 40 however strength will go down at like 2 to 4% and then Power by 8 to 10%
because you've lost muscle mass slowly since maybe 1% a year since you're 40 right and this is affecting your health your metabolism your ability to process sugar many many things yeah uh bone strength
less about 10 percent of people over 60 of sarcopenia ice but when you get to be 80 or greater it's it's half the people
Unfortunately, muscle mass and strength naturally decrease as we age
as you start to lose muscle power you lose it in your feet and lower extremities first it goes from the feet up
What I've noticed being here is that the food quality is far and away better than in the States. I've heard the food in Europe is just totally different. And there's a farmers market at least once a week in every town I visited.
the rate of loss of muscle mass as you age is something like a half to 1% per year loss of muscle strength is double to Triple that loss of muscle power is triple that
loss of muscle power is triple that
loss of muscle strength is double to triple that
the rate of loss of muscle mass as you age is something like a half to 1% per year
So, a very active individual, lower level of decline, still declining. A population average, quicker level of decline, and a sedentary individual, much quicker level of decline.
On average, most people lose 1% of their muscle mass per year and 3% of their strength per year after age 50.
Most people will say that somewhere in your 30s or 40s, you're beginning to lose muscle mass. And usually, what we say, on a population level, it's about a 1% loss of muscle mass per year
and about a 1% to 3% drop in strength or power. So, the muscle mass decline is actually slower than we lose strength.
muscle strength actually Fades faster with age reductions in muscle strength can can happen so in men they start to lose 3 to 4% in strength you know as they get older women are about 2.5 to 3% and this can lead to functional issues slow walking you start to lose Independence you get increased you know fracture risk Frailty and then all those things sort of add up to a you know higher risk of death
The average person then when they hit the age of 70 starts to lose 15% per decade. And as people get older, they become less physically active. Right? As someone reaches the age of 70 to 80 years old, they have about 60 to 80% of the muscle mass they had when they were 30.