What vitamins prevent sarcopenia and lower the risk of death?
Dec 19, 2024
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The National Institute of Health of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on the 19th that the results of a study confirming the effect of vitamin D on improving sarcopenia in old age were published in the recent issue of the international journal 『Life Sciences』.
The researchers administered vitamin D to 3-month-old mice and 18-month-old mice for 4 months and found that old mice without vitamin D had significantly lower blood vitamin D levels and sarcopenia, while old mice taking vitamin D maintained normal muscle mass and muscle strength.
Sarcopenia, in which muscle mass, muscle strength, and muscle function abnormally decrease with age, causes activity disorders and senile diseases such as diabetes and metabolic diseases. Steady exercise is effective for the prevention and treatment of sarcopenia, and this study found that cell aging in muscle tissue was alleviated and muscle protein synthesis increased, resulting in the effect of preventing sarcopenia.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained that the improvement of muscle function by vitamin D was found to be similar to that of exercising. This suggests that elderly people who have difficulty exercising can obtain similar effects from vitamin D intake.
In September, the National Institute of Health also used data from a 14-year follow-up of a rural-based cohort of the Korean Genome Epidemiology Survey Project (KoGES) to reduce the risk of deathThe results of the study were published in the international journal 『Clinical Nutrition』 in the field of nutritional and dietary therapy.
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that plays an important role in bone growth and remodeling by controlling calcium metabolism in the body, and is related to not only musculoskeletal diseases but also cancer and cardiovascular diseases, and has also been reported to be associated with death risk.
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