A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that Omega-3 fats may help the loss of muscle mass from aging. While omega-3’s are known to stimulate protein growth in animals, the effect on human protein metabolism is not known.
For eight weeks, 16 healthy, older adults were randomly assigned to receive either omega-3 fatty acids or corn oil.
While corn oil supplementation had no effect on the muscle protein synthesis, the authors concluded that, “Omega-3 fatty acids stimulate muscle protein synthesis in older adults and may be useful for the prevention and treatment of sarcopenia.”
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What an enjoyable (and may I say insightful) read! You may not know it, but this post of yours gave me so many realizations. I wonder if it occurs to you and other people, too, but there are times when I get wonderful ideas from things that don’t have anything to do at all with what’s in my mind. On a different note, I read a lot of blogs, it’s what I do before I head off to the gym, and I can’t believe some of the trash that some people are putting out, like a magic bullet for this, and a so-called-secret for that. Like in the topic of body-building, I’ve read quite a number of blogs that talk about products that make building muscles almost instantaneous! Imagine, bodybuilding without breaking a sweat?! Come on! At the very least you need to have a workout program which you will actually follow! Now I’m ranting, sorry. I’ll look around your blog some more before heading to another one.