Jaiwant Rangi, MD, FACEEndocrinologist | Founder, Lower The Dose® | Speaker

Muscle Mass: The Critical Dam Against Metabolic Overflow

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains how low muscle mass reduces your body's ability to burn carbohydrates, causing blood sugar to spike and excess glucose to pile up in your liver. Treating high blood sugar without building muscle is like mopping a floor while the faucet runs.

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If you don't have enough muscle mass, your metabolic capacity goes low and you cannot use carbohydrates as fuel. So your blood sugar rises and that has tendency to accumulate in your liver as well to store the energy. So when we talk about upstream, it's basically talking about rise in blood sugar is end result problem. If you have a sink where the faucet is on and the water is overflowing and you constantly keep mopping the floor, you're not going to stop the overflowing. That'll continue. So you need to use whatever plan that you use to help with the condition by stopping the faucet, not constantly mopping the floor.