Towards Drugs to Treat Sarcopenia

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/12/towards-drugs-to-treat-sarcopenia/

Here, researchers review present efforts to develop drugs to treat sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs in every individual, leading to eventual frailty. As a snapshot of the research and development community, it is representative of efforts across age-related disease generally, in that the primary focus falls on more easily developed options that cannot possibly produce results larger than those resulting from exercise, particular resistance exercise. This is the unfortunate outcome of the present medical regulatory system, in which the costs of regulatory approval are made so high that concerns and incentives surrounding cost outweigh all other goals.

Sarcopenia is a challenging disease for drug development, and there is currently no cl…

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