Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Loved Ones Prevent, Delay, and Discover Sarcopenia

Abstract

Aging is a scary part of life, and sarcopenia can make it much scarier.  This is a condition that directly affects your skeletal muscle mass, and has the ability to greatly affect your life for the worse.  Some pre-requisites of sarcopenia cannot be affected by you, but some can be changed.  This affects many elderly people and causes many hardships in the later stages of life.  In most cases sarcopenia isn’t alone as it commonly occurs with other muscle mass related conditions like cachexia.  The best way to aid a sarcopenic person or discover sarcopenia is to know your body and make sure that something isn't wrong.  Many sarcopenic patients assume that the weakness and fatigue isn’t a “big deal” and this mindset causes them to learn about their condition too late to do anything about it.  The main reason for this is that they simply don’t know, and even if they tried to learn about it many articles are very hard to comprehend and digest.  So, I created the opposite of these articles, a digestible and easily understandable article on sarcopenia, an article that highlights many aspects of it, specifically what it is, what it does, who it affects, and how we can prevent or delay it.