Vitamin C could be the way to better muscles in later life, as indicated by research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom.
An examination distributed on Aug 27 (2020) in the Journal of Nutrition shows that more seasoned individuals who eat a lot of vitamin C, usually found in citrus natural products, berries and vegetables, have the best skeletal bulk.
This is significant as individuals will in general lose skeletal bulk as they get more established, prompting sarcopenia (a condition portrayed by loss of skeletal bulk and capacity), delicacy and decreased personal satisfaction.
Lead scientist Prof Ailsa Welch from the college’s Norwich Medical School says: “As individuals age, they lose skeletal bulk and quality.
“People over 50 lose up to 1% of their skeletal muscle mass each year, and this loss is thought to affect more than 50 million people worldwide.
“It’s a big problem because it can lead to frailty and other poor outcomes such as sarcopenia, physical disability, type 2 diabetes, reduced quality of life and death.”
She includes: “We realize that vitamin C utilization is connected with skeletal bulk.
“It helps defend the cells and tissues that make up the body from potentially harmful free radical substances.
“Unopposed, these free radicals can contribute to the destruction of muscle, thus speeding up age-related decline.”
She notes notwithstanding, that couple of studies to date have researched the significance of vitamin C consumption for more seasoned individuals.
“We wanted to find out whether people eating more vitamin C had more muscle mass than other people,” she says.
The exploration group contemplated information from in excess of 13,000 individuals matured between 42 to 82 years, who are partaking in the Epic (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) Norfolk Study.
Their skeletal bulk was determined and their nutrient C admissions dissected from a seven-day food journal.
The measure of vitamin C in their blood was additionally inspected.
Analyst Dr Richard Hayhoe says: “We contemplated a huge example of more seasoned Norfolk inhabitants and found that individuals with the most noteworthy measures of vitamin C in their eating routine or blood had the best assessed skeletal bulk, contrasted with those with the least sums.
“We are very excited by our findings as they suggest that dietary vitamin C is important for muscle health in older men and women, and may be useful for preventing age-related muscle loss.
“This is particularly significant as vitamin C is readily available in fruits and vegetables, or supplements, so improving intake of this vitamin is relatively straightforward.
“We found that nearly 60% of men and 50% of women participants were not consuming as much vitamin C as they should, according to the European Food Safety Agency recommendations.
“We’re not talking about people needing mega doses.
“Eating a citrus fruit, such as an orange, each day and having a vegetable side to a meal will be sufficient for most people.”
The exploration was driven by UEA, in a joint effort with the University of Cambridge and Strangeways Research Laboratory in Cambridge, and created from a UEA clinical understudy venture by Lucy Lewis.
The Epic-Norfolk study was upheld by award financing from the UK Medical Research Council and Cancer Research UK.
