Muscle strength declines with age... unless you take action
Aging takes its toll on our muscles. They fail in size and in strength. In occasional exercisers, more than half of your strength is lost by age 80. The situation is even worse for those who are sedentary.
Fortunately, most of this loss of strength can be prevented if we start early. Use-it-or-lose-it is the key. Regular strength exercisers can preserve 75% of their muscle mass to benefit them in late life. But starting early in life is important. After 65, it is very difficult to generate new muscle fibers.
Better strength means better mobility, better balance, and better protection against bone fractures. LOOKtoLIVE helps you to develop a resistance exercise program that optimizes later life muscle strength.
Bones lose strength too, unless we’re careful
Bone strength falls with age in women and men, leading often to osteoporosis and disabling fractures. It can be preserved with proper diet and weight-bearing exercise.
But it is much more difficult to regain bone strength then to keep it, so bone density measurements and bone-preserving actions need to begin early in life. LOOKtoLIVE monitors bone strength and help you maximize it through nutrition, exercise and in other ways.
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Brain Function
The brain changes as we age. From age 40, short-term memory slowly falls off, leading eventually to minor problems with recall of names and events, and word finding difficulties. More worrisome are brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s that lead to significant and rapidly progressive impairment. So far, treatments to improve memory are ineffective, but strategies exist to maintain what you have. LOOKtoLIVE helps to incorporate those preservation strategies into daily life. Our understanding of dementia is improving. Tests to determine genetic susceptibility to dementia are available through LOOKtoLIVE. And brain imaging to measure the accumulation of dementia-related proteins in your brain is not too far off. LOOKtoLIVE helps to detect emerging problems, and promotes an active maintenance approach for brain function.
Bone Density
Bone density falls with age, and with it resistance to fracture declines. Bone mass is highest at about age 35 and falls progressively thereafter in women and men. The rate of bone loss is critically dependent upon calcium intake, vitamin D levels and weight-bearing exercise. LOOKtoLIVE begins to track bone density in the early forties and continues throughout life. Early action to minimize bone loss is the best defense against later life osteoporosis.
Muscle Strength
Muscles atrophy as we age. An inactive individual loses about three quarters of muscle mass between ages 35 and 65. Fortunately this is a use-it-or-lose-it phenomenon. Regular resistance exercise over the same period preserves all but one quarter of muscle mass. The later life consequence of muscle loss is significant, because rebuilding muscle is very difficult after age 60. Low muscle mass leads to instability and falls, more fractures because muscles protect bones, and faster joint wear. And, of course, less strength limits activity and independence. LOOKtoLIVE takes your muscle mass seriously. Your muscle strength is measured, beginning early in life, and remedial action is prescribed to improve muscle mass while that is still possible.
Joint Function
Normal joint function is essential to optimum mechanical function. Worn joints lead to pain and restricted range of motion. Because joints contain sensors that help the nervous system to sense position in space, joint wear leads to loss of balance and slower muscular responses. LOOKtoLIVE includes an assessment of the mechanical stresses regularly placed on your joints in the course of daily activities, and it helps to develop an action plan to minimize joint degeneration.
See how we protect you as you age
Brain Function
The brain changes as we age. From age 40, short-term memory slowly falls off, leading eventually to minor problems with recall of names and events, and word finding difficulties. More worrisome are brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s that lead to significant and rapidly progressive impairment. So far, treatments to improve memory are ineffective, but strategies exist to maintain what you have. LOOKtoLIVE helps to incorporate those preservation strategies into daily life. Our understanding of dementia is improving. Tests to determine genetic susceptibility to dementia are available through LOOKtoLIVE. And brain imaging to measure the accumulation of dementia-related proteins in your brain is not too far off. LOOKtoLIVE helps to detect emerging problems, and promotes an active maintenance approach for brain function.
Bone Density
Bone density falls with age, and with it resistance to fracture declines. Bone mass is highest at about age 35 and falls progressively thereafter in women and men. The rate of bone loss is critically dependent upon calcium intake, vitamin D levels and weight-bearing exercise. LOOKtoLIVE begins to track bone density in the early forties and continues throughout life. Early action to minimize bone loss is the best defense against later life osteoporosis.
Muscle Strength
Muscles atrophy as we age. An inactive individual loses about three quarters of muscle mass between ages 35 and 65. Fortunately this is a use-it-or-lose-it phenomenon. Regular resistance exercise over the same period preserves all but one quarter of muscle mass. The later life consequence of muscle loss is significant, because rebuilding muscle is very difficult after age 60. Low muscle mass leads to instability and falls, more fractures because muscles protect bones, and faster joint wear. And, of course, less strength limits activity and independence. LOOKtoLIVE takes your muscle mass seriously. Your muscle strength is measured, beginning early in life, and remedial action is prescribed to improve muscle mass while that is still possible.
Joint Function
Normal joint function is essential to optimum mechanical function. Worn joints lead to pain and restricted range of motion. Because joints contain sensors that help the nervous system to sense position in space, joint wear leads to loss of balance and slower muscular responses. LOOKtoLIVE includes an assessment of the mechanical stresses regularly placed on your joints in the course of daily activities, and it helps to develop an action plan to minimize joint degeneration.