Healthy : New Apple Ingredient Discovery Keeps Muscles Strong!
Natural Component of Apple Peels Found To Help Prevent Muscle Weakening In search of an effective method to prevent muscle wasting that comes with illness and aging, researchers have located a natural compound that is very promising. The findings reported in the June issue of Cell Metabolism (a Cell Press publication), identify a natural component of apple peels known as Ursolic Acid as a promising newnutritional therapy for the widespread and debilitating condition that affects nearly everyone at one time or another. "Muscle wasting is a frequent companion of illness and aging," explained researchers from The University of Iowa, Iowa City. "It prolongs hospitalization, delays recoveries and in some cases prevents people going back home. It isn't well understood and there is no medicine for it." The research team first looked at what happens to gene activity in muscles under conditions that promote weakening. Those studies turned up 63 gene...