[Discussion] sarcopenia is doing more work than we give it credit for
sarcopenia is doing more work than we give it credit for, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Started weighing protein rather than estimating it. The gap between what I thought and what I ate was embarrassing. What the evidence actually supports, stripped of the arguing. Some lean mass is…
Agreed — protein and resistance training. Everything else in these threads is a rounding error on those two.
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the scale cannot distinguish tissue types and never could
Not convinced by that DEXA comparison. Different machine, different protocol, and the difference is inside the error.
Agreed — protein and resistance training.
incretin_ivy is right that protein becomes a logistics problem when appetite drops.
resistance training first, cardio if there is time left