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Anabolic resistance may be overcome by providing greater quantities of nutrition and/or exercise stimulus.
Increasing protein intake and exercise intensity may help elderly patients combat muscle loss.
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This reduced sensitivity of skeletal muscle to anabolic stimuli may, in some cases, be overcome by providing a greater quantity of the nutrition and/or exercise stimulus.
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The claim is based on established principles of muscle metabolism.
Source
Alterations in human muscle protein metabolism with aging: Protein and exercise as countermeasures to offset sarcopenia
Tyler A. Churchward‐Venne et al. · BioFactors · 2013
DOI 10.1002/biof.1138
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