Today I was asked about here of this article from the magazine The Journal of Nutrition. They write that older people who received little vitamin C had less muscle mass.
We have already discussed fragile old people with weak muscles. Everything is very bad there. If the muscle mass has fallen, then there is not long to live.
And now it looks like they want to adapt the article about vitamin C to the topic of muscle building in young people. Like if you eat more supplements with ascorbic acid, then biceps will grow.
In fact, everything is wrong there
We are talking about the elderly. They have different mechanisms for muscle loss.
These people were not given ascorbic acid tablets and powders. They just checked their diet and foods that could contain ascorbic acid.
The study was cross-sectional. This means that people were examined at the same time. In such a study, it is impossible to determine the cause and effect.
In what type of research do you think cause and effect can be determined? That's right, in the longitudinal direction. There are such people too. This is when people are being watched for a long time. So you can focus on one factor and exclude everything that interferes.
And what are the conclusions?
The researchers themselves say that since the elderly got vitamin C from food, it can rather be used as a marker of proper nutrition.
That is, if an elderly person had a lot of vitamin C in his blood, then he obviously ate a lot of vegetables and fruits, and he probably polished this business with high-quality protein food. That is why the muscles of the grandfather or grandmother were intact.
Young people are better off not bothering to gain muscle mass with ascorbic acid, because it was not about gaining muscle, but about slowing down weight loss in the elderly. They are not the same thing.
Someday someone will plan a longitudinal study, then some time will be spent on research, and then someone will make some conclusions about the effectiveness of vitamin C in terms of recruitment muscle mass. But now there is no such information.
Something like this…
And you did not indulge in ascorbic acid?
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