Older Adults: Build Muscle and You'll Live Longer

Nelson Vergel

Founder, ExcelMale.com
New UCLA research suggests that the more muscle mass older Americans have, the less likely they are to die prematurely. The findings add to the growing evidence that overall body composition—and not the widely used body mass index, or BMI—is a better predictor of all-cause mortality.
The study, published in the American Journal of Medicine, is the culmination of previous UCLA research led by Dr. Preethi Srikanthan, an assistant clinical professor in the endocrinology division at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, that found that building muscle mass is important in decreasing metabolic risk.

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This hypothesis has also been proven in chronic illnesses like HIV and cancer. Once you lose about 55% of your normal body cell mass, you die. Increased lean body mass (included muscles and organ tissue) is the source of nutrients for the immune system.
 

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