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ReplyThat older adult/acetaminophen/ibuprofen study is truly amazing.
In case you’re readers are tempted to try this hack, they might want to run it by their doctors first. For instance, I wouldn’t take the acetaminophen if I had chronic liver disease. I’d eschew the ibuprofen if I had kidney impairment, were prone to bleeding, had stomach ulcers or gastritis, or were taking a strong blood thinner.
-Steve
ReplyThanks, Steve. Yes, fish oil and some extra protein seem a safer way to go.
ReplySince the NSAIDs mentioned and fish oil are both anti-inflammatory, perhaps also supplementing with turmeric would give you the bulk of the benefits with much less risk.
ReplyWonder if aspirin would do the same? I’ve heard comments about people who before they died swelled up with a lot of water?/inflammation? I believe you also wrote about the same effect with fruit flies at your former blog.
ReplyAlways ask if a given intervention works the same in the elderly. Both ibuprophen and anti-oxidants act differently in us oldies wrt hypertrophy from strength training. My guess is that interventions that bring a condition closer to healthy (young) levels can be beneficial in the elderly, even though they might be detrimental in the young. Dosage requirements can also be different even when the direction of action is the same, maybe for similar reasons.
It’s a shame that most strength training studies are done in the young.
ReplyYes. I believe for example that fish oil was shown to help hypertrophy only in middle-aged or older people, not in the young, so it’s essentially restoring cellular responses to a youthful level.
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