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Special nutrition intervention needed for muscle protective efficacy of physical exercise in elderly people at risk of sarcopenia

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eMediNexus    01 February 2020

Aging is associated with progressive loss of muscle mass and strength. In the absence of any specific interventions, it usually deteriorates into sarcopenia.

A study was conducted to assess the hypothesis that combined special nutritional-physiotherapeutical intervention prevents or reverses this decline in elderly people.

Researchers investigated the effects of regular resistance muscle training (PT) alone and combined exercise + special nutrition therapy with whey protein and vitamin D (PT + NT) in 17 patients each for 3 months. Physical exercise alone did not yield any significant improvement in skeletal muscle mass or strength. Combined intervention, on the contrary, significantly increased the muscle strength (22.51 ± 2.35 vs. 24.54 ± 2.65). There was a significant advantage of PT + NT over PT.

Combined intervention with exercise and special nutrition therapy containing whey protein and vitamin D thus seems essential for the efficient protection of musculature in high-risk elderly patients.

Reference

  1. Molnár A, Jónásné Sztruhár I, Csontos ÁA, et al.Special nutrition intervention is required for muscle protective efficacy of physical exercise in elderly people at highest risk of sarcopenia.Physiol Int. 2016 Sep;103(3):368-376.

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