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Podcast: Fitness Beyond Aesthetics
Episode: 17: The Muscle Mass - Immune System Connection
Description: What comes to your mind when you think of muscles? Â You probably think of gyms, body builders, Olympic lifters, weight loss. Â Or MAYBE you think of injury prevention, or the prevention of things like Alzheimer's and Type 2 Diabetes. Â And if you think these things, you're not wrong. Â But building muscle is SO much more than just this. Â Issues like obesity, CVD, Alzheimer's, and Type 2 Diabetes are a disease of skeletal muscle first. Â Muscle is a metabolic organ. Â It is part of your endocrine system! Â It's in the literature, but very few people are talking about it. Â What I get into in t...