Gary Brecka and a guest discuss why strength training gets overlooked despite cutting overall mortality risk by 200 to 400 percent. Unlike diabetes, there's no drug that replaces low muscle mass. Your muscles are medicine, and building them is entirely on you.
Can you talk a little bit about the importance of strength training muscle beyond just what we see in the mirror and why you think muscle is medicine?
One, I think we've just been paying attention to cardio for like the last 40 or 50 years, and we've realized that we're leaving an entirely important sector of human health, especially physical health, on the table, which is strength training. And we've just kind of disregarded that. We look at the mortality data. I think being strong compared to being weak has somewhere in between a 200% and 400% difference in overall mortality risk. Let's just say you have diabetes. You can You can supplement insulin for diabetes for a pancreas that's not putting enough out, or for pancreas that's putting too much out and you're not sensitive. You can't supplement for being under-muscled. So it's something that we don't really have a fix for on the medical side. And so it's really in the hands of the patient to be able to do that.
