Muscle and bone work as one system. These guides explain sarcopenia (age-related loss of muscle strength and mass), its early symptoms, how it is assessed and recorded in the UK, what treatment involves, and how it overlaps with osteoporosis and with weight gain or weight loss.
Start here: Sarcopenia: Muscle Loss After 50 and How to Prevent It
Sarcopenia on the NHS: there's no screening programme and diagnosis is rarely recorded. What a GP can genuinely do, how falls services fit in, and the gaps.
Sarcopenia treatment: there's no licensed drug, but resistance training plus enough protein works. The UK evidence, the doses, and how to tell it's working.
The recognised sarcopenia symptoms — a weaker grip, pushing up out of a chair, slower walking, stairs — and the measurable thresholds sitting behind each one.
Sarcopenic obesity is excess body fat and low muscle together, and because the scales can stay still it's easy to miss. How it's defined, diagnosed and managed.
What is sarcopenia? A progressive muscle disorder defined since 2018 by strength, not size. What it means, who it affects and how it's diagnosed in the UK.
Low grip strength is linked to more falls, fractures and frailty, but it's a marker, not a cause. How it's measured, sarcopenia cut-offs, and if training helps.
Osteosarcopenia is when osteoporosis and sarcopenia combine. Why low bone density and low muscle share causes, how they raise falls and fracture risk, and care.
Muscle loss with age speeds up after 50 and is rarely diagnosed in the UK. How fast you lose muscle, the warning signs, and what actually prevents it.