Keeping Muscle as We Age

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Laura Landro of the Wall Street Journal wrote a fantastic article this month on a crisis facing our baby boomer population.  In "A Push to Maintain Muscles"(offline title), she listed the scientific data that shows just how quickly our muscle mass decreases after our early 40's and the ramifications of losing all that lean mass.  She noted that Sarcopenia, the name for this horrifying affliction, is an inevitability and that there were no drugs on the market that could help (though the Pharmaceutical companies are working toward a pill solution).  So what is a health conscious midlifer to do?

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