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According to ‘Senior Health’, 30 percent of women aged 65 – 85 will fall; over half of women after age 85 will suffer a fall. For men, the proportion who fall increases from 13 percent in the 65-69 age group to a peak of 31 percent in the 80-84 age group. There are also complications after the fall leading to a decrease in ability to do daily activities of daily living and in quality of life.
To find anything that might reduce the incidence of falls would be a boon to geriatric medicine. According to some recent research at the University of Oklahoma, the dietary supplement beta-alanine improves muscle endurance in the elderly, thus indirectly preventing falls by increasing muscular strength and stamina.
Beta-alanine is widely used by athletes to bulk up and increase their muscle mass. Now research, published in the journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition suggests that the same benefit may hold true for the geriatric crowd.