How Muscles Affecting The Human Body

Muscles bone and joints As we age so does our bodies, changes in the body is a result of changes muscles bone and joints. Our muscles will weaken, joins will ache and our bones will become brittle. Although this is a natural part of aging, how we treat our bodies now will affect how our body function in the future. Things like having a physically activate lifestyle, not doing a lot of physically activities, how we eat. What we eat will affect how well your body function when you age. Greasy/salty and fatten foods could lead you to have high blood pressure just another way of damaging your body in the long run. When we age our muscles weaken and does not function as well this is due to our muscle fibers condensing in number and decreasing in size, muscle tissues are replenished slower and the loss of muscle tissue is replaced with a tough, fibrous tissue. And finally, Changes in the nervous system will cause muscles to have reduced tone and ability to contract …show more content…
Elderly people are commonly at a higher risk of experiencing a bone fracture and have many complications during the fracture healing process. The cause of this is the fact that as we age, the structure of our bones change which initially leads to the loss of bone tissue. When this happens the mass of our bones are much lower making the bone weak and fragile. An additional key factor that can lead to the weakening of the bone tissue and is a form of bone wearying is having an inactive lifestyle. Hormonal changes, for women menopause triggers the loss of minerals in bone tissue and in men, the continuing decline in sex hormones leads to the future development of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is when the bones lose mass and become brittle. Lastly, bones lose calcium and other