Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter defines sarcopenia as loss of muscle mass and links it to shortened lifespan. He states muscle loss can begin as early as age 30, highlights rising youth inactivity and obesity as risk factors for poorer muscle development, and cites declines of roughly 7–10% muscle mass per decade leading to 30–40% lower muscle by the 60s.
I think one of the biggest things that I'm concerned about, this is kind of one of the things that I like to lecture on, is sarcopenia. So sarcopenia is. And you know, Kevin, but for your audience, sarcopenia is a loss of muscle mass, and this has been directly linked with shortening your lifespan. So when we look at. When we look at people, and we typically will start to lose some muscle mass as early as the age of 30. And I think a big concern is that a lot of our kids are very inactive. We have more obesity in young people than ever. And so those kids are not building a good base of muscle tissue. And so they're. They're actually starting behind the eight balls. So I believe that what we're going to see, you know, is, is even worsening this problem. Worsening. Now, the statistic is that we can lose 8, 7, 8, even 10% of our muscle mass per decade after the age of 30. Right. So that we. We end up going into our 60s with 30 to 40% of the muscle mass that we should have, and that's directly linked with early death.
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