{"id":74909,"date":"2018-01-03T06:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-gut-microbiota-could-contribute-to-sarcopenia"},"modified":"2018-01-09T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T04:03:10","slug":"the-gut-microbiota-could-contribute-to-sarcopenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-gut-microbiota-could-contribute-to-sarcopenia","title":{"rendered":"The Gut Microbiota Could Contribute to Sarcopenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-gut-microbiota-could-contribute-to-sarcopenia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have all seen it, the age-related loss of muscle mass and increasing frailty that generally accompanies advancing age. Recently the World Health Organization classified this age-related muscle wastage as a disease and thus sarcopenia entered official usage to describe it. There are a number of potential causes of sarcopenia and new research suggests that there is a nutritional link between the microbiota and development of the condition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Sarcopenia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarcopenia is the condition that causes the familiar, age-related loss of muscle strength and mass in older people, and it leads to ever-increasing frailty. Frailty makes everyday tasks difficult, affects balance, and can lead to falls, which can be very dangerous for older people.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-gut-microbiota-and-sarcopenia\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-gut-microbiota-and-sarcopenia\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all seen it, the age-related loss of muscle mass and increasing frailty that generally accompanies advancing age. Recently the World Health Organization classified this age-related muscle wastage as a disease and thus sarcopenia entered official usage to describe it. There are a number of potential causes of sarcopenia and new research suggests that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74909","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75027,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74909\/revisions\/75027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}