NaturalNews) As we get older -- or if we stop working out due to illness -- muscles can get weaker and smaller. But now comes news that a natural compound in apple peels could be the key to preventing this muscle wasting. What's more, it may also reduce body fat and lower cholesterol levels.
"Muscle atrophy causes big problems. It's also very common -- it affects most people at some point in their lives, during illness or aging. But, there's no medicine for it," says Christopher Adams, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa (UI) endocrinologist and senior author of the new study recently published in the journal
Cell Metabolism. "We studied muscle gene activity in
people with atrophy and used that
information to find chemicals that might block atrophy. One of those
chemicals was especially interesting. It's called ursolic acid and it's particularly concentrated in
apple peels."
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