Stuart M. Phillips, PhD, professor, department of kinesiology and Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He is director of the McMaster Centre for Nutrition, Exercise and Health Research and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American College of Nutrition. His scientific papers have been published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise and other leading journals.
Somewhere in your 30s, you probably began to lose muscle mass at the rate of 0.5 to 1 percent a…