Peter Attia· MD
the weaker you are the quicker it goes down what this analysis showed for the men if you if you look at quad strength basically for every 0.2 unit reduction in quad strength and they normalize this for muscle size it's important to point that out here i think is that they they took their strength metric and they normalized it by muscle size and they did it in two ways which i think made this study a little more complicated than i would like because you get the same answer both ways i think but i guess it speaks to the rigor of it they used actually ct cross-sectional area and then they use dexa but when you when you take that normalized unit of strength per ct area and you reduce that by 0.2 units which can seem somewhat you know i think for the listener that's not the important point or dexa reduced by 0.34 units you're seeing this increase in mortality a 26 or a 39 increase in mortality