My understanding is that muscle cells don’t just randomly die fast enough to account for age-related muscle loss. In young people post-development (i.e. people in their 20′s or early 30′s), it’s quite slow. Then with age, it accelerates. Fix whatever’s causing that accelerated loss, and muscle loss would be basically negligible.
What does “negligible” mean here? Negligible on what time scale? Because if the overarching question is “How do we stop or reverse aging to become amortal?” then any process of monotonic irreversible decline becomes important eventually.
My understanding is that muscle cells don’t just randomly die fast enough to account for age-related muscle loss. In young people post-development (i.e. people in their 20′s or early 30′s), it’s quite slow. Then with age, it accelerates. Fix whatever’s causing that accelerated loss, and muscle loss would be basically negligible.
What does “negligible” mean here? Negligible on what time scale? Because if the overarching question is “How do we stop or reverse aging to become amortal?” then any process of monotonic irreversible decline becomes important eventually.