Peter Attia· MD
bed rest is terrifying uh there's a guy named luke van loon in the netherlands who's his focus is muscle muscular strength but he's done a bunch of bed rest studies
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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.
bed rest is terrifying uh there's a guy named luke van loon in the netherlands who's his focus is muscle muscular strength but he's done a bunch of bed rest studies
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i'm sure you're familiar with the literature of you know you take somebody in their seventh decade of life they can and you train them very hard for a year they'll put on you know x pounds of muscle and then put them in a hospital bed for 10 days they will lose all of it they will lose every ounce that they spent a year diligently gaining
Devastating us in old age, a short stint in the hospital can cause just enough atrophy that we may not be able to perform the basic activities of daily living - progressing us catastrophically towards early mortality.