{"id":175739,"date":"2023-11-10T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/blocking-this-one-protein-could-strengthen-muscles"},"modified":"2023-11-10T03:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:23:00","slug":"blocking-this-one-protein-could-strengthen-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/blocking-this-one-protein-could-strengthen-muscles","title":{"rendered":"Blocking this one protein could strengthen muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blocking-this-one-protein-could-strengthen-muscles3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford researchers have finally figured out how a therapy that blocks a single protein can reverse age-related muscle loss in mice \u2014 and the discovery suggests seniors might not be the only ones who could benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age-related muscle loss<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> People tend to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/muscle-aging\">losing muscle mass and strength<\/a> in their 30s, and from 50 on, you could be losing <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2023\/10\/nerve-muscle-connection-aging-mice.html\">up to 10%<\/a> of your muscle mass every decade.<\/p>\n<p>While it is possible to regain lost muscle through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/aging-exercise\">exercise<\/a>, health issues can make hitting the weights a challenge. If left unaddressed, though, age-related muscle loss can lead to decreased mobility and weakness, which increases the risk of falls or other injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford researchers have finally figured out how a therapy that blocks a single protein can reverse age-related muscle loss in mice \u2014 and the discovery suggests seniors might not be the only ones who could benefit from it. Age-related muscle loss: People tend to start losing muscle mass and strength in their 30s, and from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}