{"id":606856,"date":"2026-09-05T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606856\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:10:07","slug":"the-connection-between-age-related-muscle-loss-and-infection-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606856\/","title":{"rendered":"The connection between age-related muscle loss and infection risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NMHEARE52VB7NECPGZW6TLAGGI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Aging comes with the risk of some well-known physical changes. But one to keep an eye on \u2014 because it\u2019s linked to serious complications such as frailty, falls and fractures \u2014 is sarcopenia. This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/06\/15\/how-reduce-age-related-muscle-loss-according-sports-medicine-doctor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/06\/15\/how-reduce-age-related-muscle-loss-according-sports-medicine-doctor\/\">gradual loss of muscle mass<\/a> that actually begins around age 30. After that, you lose about 3 to 5 percent of your muscle per decade \u2014 although you might not really notice it until around age 60.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aging comes with the risk of some well-known physical changes. But one to keep an eye on \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-606856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}