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Sarcopenia

The muscle melt that quietly starts in your 30s and ends as the reason older people fall and do not get up.

Definition

Age related loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength, accelerating after the 40s and a primary driver of frailty, falls, and mortality in later life.

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