Muscle Tone Loss
Original Post: I saw a post which suggested that we have 7% loss (referring to muscle tone) per year. I have tried to find what book /publication printed this and by whom. Can you help?
Dr. Bruno’s Response: A Canadian doctor Alan McComas, who studies polio survivors and ALS, found that UNTREATED polio survivors who reported muscle weakness, lost 7% of their motor neurons each year (when studied in a two-year follow up). People who didn't have polio lose 1% of their motor neurons each year after the age of 60.
With polio survivors having lost an average of 50% of the motor neurons that run each muscle as a result of the polio virus, polio survivors don't have any motor neurons to lose!