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it is not inevitable and that it is not a continuous slope of decline that reflects some physiologic process within the atrophying muscle but instead it's a series of discret declines each one precipitated by a period of inactivity
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the demographic show this because as we age there are more people in that situation where they have Su short successive periods of reduced physical activity
it is not inevitable and that it is not a continuous slope of decline that reflects some physiologic process within the atrophying muscle but instead it's a series of discret declines each one precipitated by a period inactivity some of them perhaps deliberate meaning hey you know I'm going on vacation for a week and I'm just going to sit on the beach and do nothing and some of them forced Upon Us by injury or illness
if you look at this at the population level which is always how the data are presented it appears to be a physiologic phenomenon what does what does he mean by that a physiologic phenomenon is an inevitability right it's just it's physiologic right you're going to lose muscle as you age and it occurs on this nice beautiful smooth curve and he said but if you actually look at it at the individual level that's not at all what it looks like it's actually a graded step function
at the individual level it is a series of big discret drops and so when you smooth out thousands of people with big discrete drops it looks like a smooth drop
what Luke pointed out is well actually that's true at the population level it's not true at the individual level at the individual level it is a series of big discret drops and so when you smooth out thousands of people with big discrete drops it looks like a smooth drop
When you look at this at the individual level, uh for most people it's relatively slow decline punctuated by rapid uh periods of decline with inactivity.
If you zoom in and look at it at the individual level, it looks like this. Exactly as you described, discrete periods of loss from which there is no recovery because at the later points in life, it becomes very difficult to make those recoveries.