Muscle mass lost at 70

Start weight training to build muscle. We all lose it as we age and weight training is the only way
to build and sustain it.

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I'm a 70 year old, 6 ft, 163 lb male taking statins. My muscles have been disappearing for the
last few years despite playing volleyball and badminton several times a week. It has been
suggested to me that I add creatine to my diet. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Elmer

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I'm a 70 year old, 6 ft, 163 lb male taking statins. My muscles have been disappearing for the
last few years despite playing volleyball and badminton several times a week. It has been
suggested to me that I add creatine to my diet. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Elmer

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Elmer said:

I'm a 70 year old, 6 ft, 163 lb male taking statins. My muscles have been disappearing for the
last few years despite playing volleyball and badminton several times a week. It has been
suggested to me that I add creatine to my diet. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Exercise. Use the muscles that are getting smaller, and they will get bigger again. It works at any
age. No need for bizarre dietary supplements, but it does require work.

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Elmer said:

I'm a 70 year old, 6 ft, 163 lb male taking statins. My muscles have been disappearing for the
last few years despite playing volleyball and badminton several times a week. It has been
suggested to me that I add creatine to my diet. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Exercise. Use the muscles that are getting smaller, and they will get bigger again. It works at any
age. No need for bizarre dietary supplements, but it does require work.

Just a thought, but what about a testosterone level check?

Seems to work wonders when supplemented, if low.

Moosh🙂

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I'm a 70 year old, 6 ft, 163 lb male taking statins. My muscles have been disappearing for the
last few years despite playing volleyball and badminton several times a week. It has been
suggested to me that I add creatine to my diet. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Elmer

You have sacropenia. Besides MSEagan's suggestion of taking on a more deliberate program of muscle
building, in words, weight lifting, I suggest you may need supplemental androgens. And before you do
that, get a prostate specific antigen as a screening test for prostate cancer with can be androgen
sensitive. Understand androgens don't cause prostate cancer (no matter what anyone says) rather
androgens can promote it growth if it has already started. Now that I've scared you, we will see if
you brain is still working. Androgens aka anabolic steroids promote muscle growth. You now need to
have your hormone levels checked. And I don't only mean your total testosterone levels only but also
your free testosterone levels, your DHEA levels, your estrogen levels (as it can get too high in
ratio to androgens in older males), DHT levels, and your prolactin levels. It suggest three books,
the first is "The Testosterone Syndrome' by Eugene Shippen, M.D. (well respected), "Maximize Your
Vitality and Potency for Men over 40" by Jonathan V. Wright and Lane Lenard, Ph.D. (a bit less
conventional) and "Anabolic Therapy in Modern Medicine" by William A. Taylor, M.D. (the book seems
OK though the author maybe retired? or he may not have either clinical? or research experience?, so
I take him with a little salt, still his book is based solidly on the research and is the most
scientific in style of the three books though he is WEAK!! on specific applications).

Because you are at an age prostate cancer is a risk, I'd be taking a larger dose of vitamin D3
( Itake 4000 IU during the late fall and winter months and 1000 IU during those months I get some
sun) as this slows the development of prostate cancer and more surprisingly slows sacropenia.
I'd also be taking selenium and natural vitamer tocopherol though it is late in the game for
preventatives. Still as the aged (you) are more compromised in this handling of oxidative
stress, antioxidants may still have preventative value as the damage is accumulating faster than
in your youth.

One aspect of sacropenia is that it is in part caused by the death nerves supplying the muscle with
impulses. B-vitamins, vitamin E, inositol, taurine? slow or partly reverse this loss in diabetics.
If you take diabetes as an accelerated model of aging, one can draw the conclusion that those
substances are of use in the "normally aging" population as well. No doubt your run-of-the mill
nutritionist, or MD will poo poo this and say this is unproven. But, I'll suggest to you that you
don't have the luxury to wait for complete proof of concept. While it may take the "Establishment
types" another couple centuries to "discover" some of the things I've mentioned, there are at least
some practicing physicians that use testosterone therapy in elderly males like yourself. You will
have to doctor shop and you will likely need an endocrinologist or a doc that is into "life-
extension".

There is always a new way to screw up..................... Just don't let the "[censored]" do it to
you..................... .....................................................William A. Noyes

Elmer said:

I'm a 70 year old, 6 ft, 163 lb male taking statins. My muscles have been disappearing for the
last few years despite playing volleyball and badminton several times a week. It has been
suggested to me that I add creatine to my diet. Does anyone have any recommendations?

There's an article in the Feb 2004 LEF magazine (not on their site yet) that strongly
suggests anyone taking statins should also heavily supplement with CoQ10 to reduce the risk
of muscle problems.

Drug companies have actually patented combo pills containing both a statin and CoQ10, but so far
have not produced these.