Muscle Affects Your Aging #shorts

When you think about muscle, I think about it really as it relates to diseases of aging that we're seeing. And when I say diseases of aging, I'm really talking about metabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's, and overall insulin resistance, which is the hot topic. And insulin resistance simply means that your body requires more of an output of insulin from the pancreas to move glucose into the cell. We're like, well, what does this have to do with muscle? Yeah, exactly. What if I told you that muscle is one of the primary sites for insulin resistance. If we believe that insulin resistance is at the heart of these diseases that subsequently cause type 2 diabetes and then obesity, then really skeletal muscle is the focal point. It's the pinnacle, not the periphery. So from a very tangible aspect, skeletal muscle is the site for upwards of 80 some percent of glucose disposal, meaning the carbohydrates that you eat, the primary initial site of disposal is skeletal muscle.