Muscle on the elderly

Just wanted to point to a couple of studies that I saw today.  We know that retaining as much muscle as possible as we age for a whole bunch of reasons: function, trauma protection, balance, stronger bones, a reservoir of amino acids to support the immune system....etc

These two look interesting:

Protein Supplementation Increases Muscle Mass Gain During Prolonged Resistance-Type Exercise Training in Frail Elderly People: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Old people need to train AND adding some additional protein helps.....

But they need to KEEP OFF STATINS.  

Effect of a high dose of simvastatin on muscle mitochondrial metabolism and calcium signaling in healthy volunteers.