Weight Training plus Creatine Slow the Aging Process
December 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We all know that muscle mass, strength, and muscle cell function decreases as we grow older. The aging process, causes loss of functional motor units (nerve and muscle cells), abnormal mitochondria (cell energy centers), nerve cell death and DNA destruction. Slowly, muscle cells lose the knack for repairing damage, which causes further weakening in muscle function. Weight training can moderately re-establish lost muscle function in older adults. Mark Tarnopolsky and Adeel Safdar from McMaster.
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University in Canada, in a review of literature, revealed that the mixture of weight training and creatine monohydrate formed satellite cells that had the characteristics of young muscle. The satellite cells are incorporated into the old muscle, which reverses many of the effects of growing older. Adding conjugated linoleic acid supplements helps reduce body fat and increase lean mass. Creatine supplementation mixed with weight training boosting muscle nuclei (the genetic centers of cells), which also has the effect of making muscles “younger”. UC concluded that the mixture of weight training, creatine monohydrate, and CLA has a vital anti-gaining effects.
Source: Applied Physiology Nutrition Metabolism, 33: 213-227, 2008
