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Podcast: Fitness Beyond Aesthetics
Episode: S5 | E02 | Fitness Fundamentals (Part 2) Building muscle: one of the best things you can do for your health and longevity and things you’re doing that sabotage it
Description: It's been said that if exercise could come in a pill that it would be the most widely-prescribed drug in the world. But in this episode we take that even further and dive into the specific proven benefits of building muscle and sustaining sufficient muscle mass.
The majority of the population, specifically in the USA, are not over-fat, but are under-muscled. Many conditions like dementia, Alzheimers and type 2 diabetes are conditions that begin in unhealthy skeletal muscle mass.
Building muscle could quite possibly be the singular most beneficial thing...