Talk:Sarcopenia

message: Can someone please format the references section so it's not so much of a hodgepodge?    —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thattherepaul (talk • contribs) 11:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! Wingman4l7 (talk) 04:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaning up References section

message: Any references for the statement on improving BMD in veganism in senescence? 
Also, the body of literature seems heterogeneous on the incidence of sarcopenia and osteoporosis with meat intake... any solid evidence for that statement?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vyapada (talk • contribs) 07:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Veganism

message: I added a ref and comment about this. Should a Notes section be established for that ref instead of adding as I did? Chaveso 18:44, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vitamin D deficiency

message: I rewrote the article, because it was quite disorganized.   I added a lot of sections, and tried to organize things better.  
Gacggt (talk) 22:21, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: I've heard that there are some doctors, and now an organization of doctors, who believe that the major risk factor for Sarcopenic obesity, and possibly of Obesity, Sarcopenia in general, consequent Deconditioning, and the early onset of Type 2 Diabetes is too much carbohydrate in the diet. I believe this is too new a speculation to have any reliable sources, so I thought I'd just note it here. Also, note that the percentage body fat in various areas of the body (as opposed to the Body Mass Index) is easily measured by a GE two-energy-level x-ray scannter. Again, this is probably too new a device to have readily available reliable sources. These new insights and technologies may hold the promise of reducing the prevalence of sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic obesity in society. (In many cases, restrictive diets fail due to hunger--this may be less of a problem in high-protein, ketogenic diets. David Spector (talk) 23:04, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  High carbohydrate as a risk factor 

message: I removed the following text from the Natural History section as it seemed to be a distracting level of detail that unbalanced the section. Rod57 (talk) 13:23, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural History section 

message: Can we add more on the effect of diet on sarcopenia ? Increased requirement for protein as we age ? Rod57 (talk) 13:35, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diet 

message: I am a student at Case Western Reserve University interested in the evolutionary considerations of sarcopenia and muscle loss. The following is a sample of what I plan on adding to the article under the subtitle "Evolutionary Considerations."
"Myostatin is a substance that the body produces in order to keep muscles from getting too large. Myostatin inhibitors will result in the success of muscle growth and may soon be used as a way to help people with muscle-wasting diseases. The two roles of myostatin are in embryo to limit formation of muscle fibers, and later in life to limit the growth of the muscle . There are a few hypotheses relating to why myostatin is genetically inherent." 
Furthermore, I will discuss the two opposing hypotheses on muscle-wasting as related to the proximate cause of myostatin in an ultimate, evolutionary, context. Tgdetto345 (talk) 18:18, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Evolutionary Considerations

message: Hello, all. I'm teaching a course called Wiki-Med at the Sackler school of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. 
My of my students is working on translating this article into Hebrew, but is missing pictures for better illustrating the phenomenon. 
Can anyone help us find / upload related pics? Please ignore any pics you might find now on commons. These were copied from google by and uploaded by the student by mistake and will be deleted shortly. Thanks much in advance, Shani. (talk) 23:17, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures, anyone..?

message: I added a reference to the new ICD code for Sarcopenia, but couldn't figure out how to incorporate it into the already-established reference list.
Can someone help me?  The reference is:
http://aginginmotion.org/news/2388-2/
Thank you...  Gacggt (talk) 15:57, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: New Reference, for ICD code

message: The lede says it begins "after the age of 50". When I first heard about, I was told it began at age 30. A very quick look at web search results indicates it begins sometime between age 30 and 40. SlowJog (talk) 15:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  When does it begin?