Here are three changes you need to make in your diet to retain muscle better as you age. I've been a functional medicine doctor for more than 25 years, and the same eating pattern that maintained your muscle at 30 will quietly let it slip away at 60. Change number one: Eat more protein per meal than you used to need. Younger muscle responds to a modest protein hit. Older muscle has what is called anabolic resistance, and it takes meaningfully more protein in a single sitting, closer to 30 to 40
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Here are three changes you need to make in your diet to retain muscle better as you age. I've been a functional medicine doctor for more than 25 years, and the same eating pattern that maintained your muscle at 30 will quietly let it slip away at 60. Change number one: Eat more protein per meal than you used to need. Younger muscle responds to a modest protein hit. Older muscle has what is called anabolic resistance, and it takes meaningfully more protein in a single sitting, closer to 30 to 40
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