{"id":147,"date":"2026-07-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/protein-muscle-and-ageing-well\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T03:45:26","slug":"protein-muscle-and-ageing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/protein-muscle-and-ageing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing protein, muscle, and ageing well naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muscle is the organ most people forget to protect \u2014 and the one that predicts how the next thirty years go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jul 8, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 min read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Arjun Mehta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From around 40, adults lose roughly 1% of muscle mass a year without resistance training. That loss shows up later as poor glucose control, frailty and a longer recovery from everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How much protein, really<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most guidelines set a floor, not a target. For anyone training or over 50, somewhere between 1.2 and 1.6 g per kg of body weight per day is a more useful aim, spread across meals rather than loaded into dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to watch in bloodwork<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fasting insulin and HbA1c tell you how well your muscle is handling glucose. Ferritin and vitamin D affect whether you recover well enough to keep training. They belong in the same conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food first, supplements second, and lift something heavy twice a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Arjun Mehta<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internal medicine, Verdia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muscle is the organ most people forget to protect \u2014 and the one that predicts how the next thirty years go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/verdia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}