Muscle Health: A New Vision For Women’s Anti-Aging, Hormone Optimization & Longevity – In your journey for an extended, healthier life, the importance of lean muscle mass cannot be overstated. It’s not just about the appearance of looking fit or increasing physical strength; muscle mass plays a key role in your overall health and longevity.
In this article, I will help you discover the major connection between muscle mass, optimized hormones, looking & feeling younger, and living a long, vibrant life.
First Let’s Talk about Muscle Mass:
- Muscle mass is key for metabolic health & balanced hormones as it stores glucose and helps regulate blood sugar levels, preventing conditions such as type 2 diabetes and reducing the risk of other health issues related to poor metabolic health.
- Sarcopenia, or the decline of muscle mass, starts as early as our 30s and increases as we age, getting worse over time & affecting our power to do daily activities and increasing the risk of falls and physical fatalities as we age.
- Regular, progressive strength training is essential for fighting muscle mass loss and optimizing overall health.
- Exercise and physical activity are key to hormone optimization, maintaining joint health, and managing pain, contrary to fears that exercise might worsen conditions or cause injury.
What Happens to Our Muscles as We Get Older?
The fight against aging is a process that no one should avoid, yet one to which few of us focus on. Sure, we look at the aging lines appearing on our faces, the extra energy drain we feel during daily tasks, and the way it becomes so difficult to lose some excess weight from our bellies. But few seek to understand what is happening to us. One of the most impactful consequences of aging is a loss of lean muscle mass, which we call sarcopenia. There has been a huge amount of research conducted into this process.
So, What’s the Big Deal about Lean Muscle Mass?
Is it harmful to lose muscle mass? The answer is it’s beyond harmful. It affects our overall health in many ways. Muscle mass is critical in our ability to live our daily lives – lifting grocery bags, lifting backpacks, going up and down stairs… we rely on our muscles all day, every day. Even during the workday when we get up out of our desk chairs to go to grab some snacks. Without working muscles, we wouldn’t be able to do much of anything. A loss of muscle mass makes you old before your time. Research shows that a major cause of death in aging people is falls. Because with age & no strength training, people get weaker, lose more muscle, and are less fit, making it super difficult to prevent and protect themselves from falling.
Muscle Mass Is Crucial for Optimum Hormones & Peak Health
Muscle stores glucose, glucose is poisonous, which is why it is regulated. Proper glucose regulation prevents it from being stored as visceral fat around the organs, which can cause inflammation and worsen sarcopenia. In short, a loss of muscle mass is a major cause of unbalanced hormones & poor metabolic health including prematurely aged skin, heart conditions, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney diseases, poor vision, and depression among others. This, in turn, has numerous ‘domino’ effects. One of these is that it makes muscle loss worse. Once the process has started, it’s easy to find ourselves going downhill losing muscle.
What can I do about Losing Muscle?
Despite all the myths about bulking up with too much muscle out there, managing lean muscle mass loss doesn’t require complicated equipment or extreme diets. Regular consistent weight training – and weight training that makes you stronger, not just lifting the same weights & exercises for years. You must experience progressive overload & get stronger each workout.
Muscle Medicine– A New Vision on Anti-Aging, Exercise & Hormone Health
There is no question, that muscle mass is key to slowing down the aging process and living a longer and more active life. Through regular exercise and a clear understanding of how muscle mass works, you can take proactive steps toward optimizing your health & hormones as you age. My Muscle Medicine science and the latest research offer a strategy for incorporating muscle strength into your anti-aging strategy, reminding us that keeping lean muscle mass is within reach for everyone committed to a healthier life.
This article can help you understand the link of muscle & anti-aging more clearly. Primex Cellular Health & I can help you build it in a way that fits with your personal idea of “health, fitness & beauty.” Whether you’re looking to reduce weight, add lean muscle mass, boost energy in the face of hormonal changes, or just slow the aging process down, we’ll create & prescribe a medical wellness plan to help you achieve your goals on the root cellular level.
At Primex Cellular Health, we’re here to support you every step of the way on your muscle enhancement & anti-aging journey. Our holistic root cause cellular medicine approach to women’s health focuses on addressing the underlying causes of menopausal symptoms and optimizing hormonal balance to help you feel your best at every stage of life.
This spring season are you ready to take your self-care to the next level, lose weight, optimize your health, boost your sex drive, energy & embrace menopause as a new beginning rather than an end? Let’s chat about how we can support you on your pre, during, or post-menopausal journey and help you thrive during this transformative time. Get the spring of 2025 off to a great start & schedule your initial virtual consultation with me, Dr. Eric, today! Reach out at 1-740-777-9717 or shoot me an email directly at eric@drericfete.com & feel free to visit my website for more free valuable health, nutrition, wellness & fitness information. Here’s to embracing the journey of wellness & holistic health and stepping into this new chapter of your life with confidence and vitality! Stay Prime.
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