Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Amie Hornaman | Protect Your Muscle As You Age_ A Vital Key to Longevity

15 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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This YouTube clip features Dr. Amie Hornaman explaining that people lose muscle as they age and must protect it. She emphasizes resistance training (including bodyweight options like squats and push-ups) and adequate protein intake to repair and preserve muscle damaged by training. The segment is practical and advice-focused.

We start to lose muscle as we age, and we need to protect it. We need to hold onto it for dear life. And the one way to do that, outside of resistance training and lifting heavy, you still want to do that. You know, get some kind of. Even if it's body weight, resistance, air, squats, pushups, off of a bench chair, you have to have the protein on board to repair those muscles that you want to break down with resistance training and to protect those muscles.