{"id":73951,"date":"2017-11-27T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/older-men-need-more-protein-to-maintain-muscles"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:01:25","slug":"older-men-need-more-protein-to-maintain-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/older-men-need-more-protein-to-maintain-muscles","title":{"rendered":"Older men need more protein to maintain muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/older-men-need-more-protein-to-maintain-muscles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The amount of protein recommended by international guidelines is not sufficient to maintain muscle size and strength in older men, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say their findings mean <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/older+men\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">older men<\/a> should aim to have high quality <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> at every meal.<\/p>\n<p>The size of our skeletal muscles \u2013 the muscles we use to move our body \u2013 and our ability to perform everyday tasks naturally decline with age from the around the fifth decade. Severe <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/muscle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">muscle<\/a> loss can lead to frailty, loss of independence and a greater risk of dying.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-11-older-men-protein-muscles.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017&#45;11-older-men-protein-muscles.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of protein recommended by international guidelines is not sufficient to maintain muscle size and strength in older men, according to a new study. Researchers say their findings mean older men should aim to have high quality protein at every meal. The size of our skeletal muscles \u2013 the muscles we use to move [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74089,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73951\/revisions\/74089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}