Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing the efficacy of epigallocatechin gallate ("EGCg") in mitigating skeletal muscle loss in a subject. Providing EGCg to a subject in a nutritional composition reduces muscle protein degradation, thereby mitigating skeletal muscle loss in the subject. The combination of EGCg with zinc in a nutritional composition enhances the mitigating effect that EGCg has on muscle loss. Specifically, when used in combination, a nutritional composition containing both EGCg and zinc requires less EGCg to obtain the same mitigating effect that occurs in the same nutritional composition containing EGCg but no zinc.La presente invención se refiere a una composición nutricional para preservar la función del músculo esquelético en un sujeto susceptible a la pérdida de función del músculo esquelético debida al envejecimiento, inactividad o enfermedad, la composición nutricional comprende por lo menos una fuente de galato de epigalocatequina (EGCg), y por lo menos una fuente de zinc.
