Green tea extract and cocoa-supplemented diets improve survival rate of aging mice – News Medical

Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function with age, is considered the main causative factor of the physical performance decline in the elderly.

The authors have recently reported a marked increase in the microglial and astroglial pro-inflammatory phenotypes glial subpopulations.

Caloric restriction has also been reported to ameliorate age-related changes in rodent NMJs and to prevent MN and motor axon degeneration found to occur with aging.

The Calderó Research Team concluded in their Aging-US Research Output that, green tea and cocoa flavonoids from GTE and cocoa significantly increased the survival rate of aged mice.

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