The Simple Deficiency Sapping Your Strength

Muscle loss is a part of aging and begins far earlier than you might imagine.

Starting as young as 30, people can lose three to five percent of their muscle mass per decade.

And once you reach 60, muscle loss ramps up as your body slows down.

Regular strength training is an excellent way to fight back… but it won’t be enough if you’re deficient in one VITAL nutrient.

Researchers measured the grip strength and vitamin D levels of 3,205 volunteers who didn’t have signs of age-related muscle-strength loss (technically called dynapenia).

Over the next four years, they found that the risk of dynapenia increased by 70 percent in people deficient in vitamin D.

For this study, deficiency was defined as vitamin D levels under 12 ng/ml.

If your levels are this low, you’ve got a LOT more to worry about than muscle strength.

A D deficiency is now defined as 20 ng/ml.

But my goal isn’t to get you to minimal… I want optimal. Based on the research, optimal is 60 ng/ml or higher.

Vitamin D deficiency is a risk factor for accelerated muscle loss in our senior years.

So, to fight back against age-related muscle loss, start by having your vitamin D levels tested.

If your doctor won’t do it (or insurance won’t pay), you can obtain a test on your own for a reasonable cost through Life Extension (lifeextension.com).

Once you know your levels, you’ll know what steps you need to take to improve them.

This should always start with getting more sunlight.

But if that’s not possible for you or your numbers remain low, you can consider taking a supplement until your levels are back in the optimal range.

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SOURCE:

Delinocente, M.L.B., Luiz, M.M., de Oliveira, D.C. et al. Are Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency Risk Factors for the Incidence of Dynapenia?. Calcif Tissue Int 111, 571–579 (22).