ArticleCurrent nutrition reports2016
The Effects of Dietary Omega-3s on Muscle Composition and Quality in Older Adults.
Article in Current nutrition reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- A Five-Ingredient Nutritional Supplement and Home-Based Resistance Exercise Improve Lean Mass and Strength in Free-Living Elderly.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Skeletal muscle-specific myostatin overexpression promotes muscle oxidative capacity and fatigue resistance in transgenic mice.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Efficacy of Nutritional Interventions as Stand-Alone or Synergistic Treatments with Exercise for the Management of Sarcopenia.Nutrients · 2019Review
- Does nutrition play a role in the prevention and management of sarcopenia?Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2018Review
- The Role of Inflammation in Age-Related Sarcopenia.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
This review will focus on findings from the few studies performed to date in humans to examine changes in muscle protein turnover, lean or muscle mass and physical function following fish oil-derived omega-3 fatty acid treatment. Although considerable gaps in our current knowledge exist, hypertrophic responses (e.g., improvements in the rate of muscle protein synthesis and mTOR signaling during increased amino acid availability and an increase in muscle volume) have been reported in older adults following prolonged (8 to 24 weeks) of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation. There is also accumulating evidence that increased omega-3 fatty acid levels in red blood cells are positively related to strength and measures of physical function. As a result, increased omega-3 fatty acid consumption may prove to be a promising low-cost dietary approach to attenuate or prevent aging associated declines in muscle mass and function.
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