Old Age and Muscular State

[Arrogant Christian]

(Dear mods, I promise pubmed is legitimate, haha)

Code for "I didn't read the rules, but know it's unacceptable; however, I'm going to lay my turd in your place anyway"

Believe it or not I did read all of the rules before joining at all, it was meant in jest, since, yes, I did know it was fine to post this link. However, the rules did encourage new users to not post links (for fear of advertising accounts) and that they would be subject to verification. As for pubmed, if the government has started an advertising campaign for a free scientific publication service who's theater is internet forums, then it is indeed a confusing country in which I live. As for your response, I find it somewhat strange that you are so very aggressive in what should have been a neutral joke. Well either that or you didn't know what you were talking about and decided to attack a new user for fun

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I would imagine you'd have to treat the bones as well. Yeah? Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the osteoclasts start to out compete the osteoblasts in old age, or is that just in the case of osteoporosis? If you're able to exert more force on you're skeletal structure, it had better be able to keep up. Maybe that goes without saying.

Well, in a healthy body, osteoblasts and osteoclasts "compete" based on environmental actions, such as exercise, nutritional deficiency, etc. However, one of the hallmarks of old age is the loss of stem cells, though less so in more differentiated stem cells like osteoblasts. I would expect that light, weight-bearing exercise along with proper diet should help sufficiently strengthen the bones to a reasonable strength. As for osteoporosis, in my experience, it is normally poor diet (or conditions mimicking that), lack of exercise, and the loss of osteoblasts together that contribute to the disease state, and is treatable by treating the former two.