LIVERPOOL, England, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A study conducted by a team from Connecticut's Yale University has found that as one ages, the body's system that creates muscles slowly begins to fail.
The study from Howard Hughes Medical School at the Yale University School of Medicine discovered that due to this decreased ability to create muscle tissue, the time needed to produce such results increases along with one's age, the BBC said.
The group conducted its comparative study using both 3-month-old and 2-year-old rats,
Dr. Anne McArdle of the University of Liverpool in Britain immediately applauded the study's findings regarding the internal process of AMP-activated protein kinase.
"Loss of skeletal muscle mass and function as we age is a major problem which has a significant effect on quality of life of older people," she said. "Studies which examine the mechanisms by which muscle function is lost are crucial to the development of interventions aimed at maintenance of muscle mass and function in later life."
Yet McArdle was quick to point out that such increased attempts to gain muscle mass later in life could prove fruitless as it is impossible to regain muscle function, the BBC said.
