Brigid Titgemeier explains that adults lose 3-8% of muscle mass per decade after 30, and women lose 20% bone density during menopause. Building muscle prevents type 2 diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, and excess belly fat more effectively than tracking total weight.
Track muscle, not total weight. After the age of 30, we lose an average of 3 to 8% of our muscle mass every 10 years. Women that go through menopause, they lose 20% of their bone density in that transition. And that happens around the age of 51. And this rate of decline increases even more after the age of 60. So what this does is it drastically increases the risk of hormonally driven symptoms. It increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, of cancer, of heart disease, of osteoporosis, of excess belly fat accumulation. So many different conditions that are extremely preventable by us focusing on building muscle mass.
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