Chapter 4 Treatment of sarcopenia
Geriatr Gerontol Int 2018; 18 (Suppl. 1): 28-44, doi: 10.1111/ggi.13322
Hidenori Arai,1 Hidetaka Wakabayashi,2 Yoshihiro Yoshimura,3 Minoru Yamada,4 Hunkyung Kim5 and Atsushi Harada1
1National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, 2Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, 3Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kumamoto Rehabilitation Hospital, Kumamoto, 4Department of Lifespan Developmental Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University ofTsukuba, and5Research Team for Promoting Independence of the Elderly, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan
This review of many sarcopenia studies has no abstract
- Examined exercise and/or Vitamin D
- Study found that starting vitamin D supplementation before exercise was best
- VitaminDWiki believes that there is little point in the exercise before Vitamin D levels are restored
Maintenance dose of vitamin D would require 3-4 months
Load dose of vitamin D would require < 2 weeks
Sarcopenia (muscle loss) fought by Vitamin D, exercise and protein - many studies many studies
VitaminDWiki pages containing SARCOPENIA in title (16 as of Oct 2021)
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See also web
- The most effective factors to offset sarcopenia and obesity in the older Korean: Physical activity, vitamin D, and protein intake Nutrition Jan 2017 doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2016.06.004
- Longitudinal Associations Between Vitamin D Metabolites and Sarcopenia in Older Australian men: The Concord Health and Aging in Men Project
Sarcopenia 2.5X more likely if low Vitamin D (5 years earlier) - Search Cinical Trials for SARCOPENIA and "VITAMIN D" 28 trials as of July 2018