{"id":146,"date":"2026-07-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/protein-muscle-and-ageing-well\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:00:00","slug":"protein-muscle-and-ageing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/protein-muscle-and-ageing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing protein, muscle and aging well, naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muscle is the organ most of us forget to protect, and the one that best 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. Rohan Desai<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From about 40, adults who don\u2019t do resistance training lose roughly 1% of their muscle a year. Later that shows up as weaker glucose control, frailty and slower 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 give a minimum, not a target. If you train or are over 50, about 1.2 to 1.6 g per kg of body weight a day is a better aim, spread across meals instead of piled 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 show how well your muscle is handling glucose. Ferritin and vitamin D decide whether you recover well enough to keep training. All four belong in the same conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eat first, supplement second, and pick up something heavy twice a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Rohan Desai<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Internal medicine, Tinsdale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muscle is the organ most of us forget to protect, and the one that best 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-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}