JJ Virgin4x NYTimes Best Selling Author, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Fitness Hall of Famer

Crazy Health Facts About Women Over 40 I Still Can't Believe...

25 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, JJ Virgin warns that beginning at age 40 women start losing about 1% of muscle mass each year, accompanied by a 2–4% annual decline in strength and power. She cites alarming statistics: 11% of people aged 50‑60 have sarcopenia (insufficient muscle), and from age 65 onward, half of women will suffer a hip fracture, with half of those dying within a year. Virgin emphasizes that these outcomes are preventable with appropriate action.

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Starting at age 40, if we don't do something about it, we start to lose up to 1% of our muscle a year. That's not the bad part. The bad part is we're losing our strength, 2 to 4%. We're losing our power. And here are the crazy wild statistics. Age 50 to 60, 11% of the people age 50 to 60 have sarcopenia. That means they don't have enough muscle. Starting at age 65, 50% of women are going to break a hip, break a bone. 50% of them are going to die from it within the next year. This is all preventable stuff. Doesn't have to happen.