Apple ingredient keeps muscles strong: Component of apple peels found to help prevent muscle weakening in mice
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
In search of a way to prevent the muscle wasting that comes with illness and aging, researchers have landed a natural compound that might just do the trick. The findings identify a component of apple peels as a promising new drug candidate for the widespread and debilitating condition that affects nearly everyone at one time or another.