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Scientists discovered you have a second heart in your calf.
It's called the soleus muscle—just 1% of your body weight—but if it fails, you're 4 times more likely to die.
The calf muscle pump, which is a system of muscles, veins, and valves in the calf and foot, pushes deoxygenated blood up... See more
Dr. Andy Galpin: How to Build Strength, Muscle Size & Endurance
hubermanlab.comExcess Weight Drives Poor Metabolic Health The extra weight you're carrying is what's causing problems with your metabolism. Your body's ability to process food and energy gets worse when you have too much fat.
After age 30, if you don’t change your lifestyle, you lose up to 10% of muscle per decade 🧵1/5
After 50, low muscle mass increases the risk of death by 30-40%.
Muscle is key for longevity, glucose management, and preventing fractures.
Jessie Inchauspex.comThere is chronic stress—the kind that comes from a bad job, sour relationship, prolonged financial hardship, or even what my friend fitness author and mega-athlete Mark Sisson calls “chronic cardio” (discussed momentarily). This kind of stress accelerates entropy and decay. It leads to prolonged elevation of the hormone cortisol, which can rob our
... See morePaul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
132 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) aligns closely with hunter-gatherer populations, who have minimal chronic disease.
However, it’s not just the volume of activity that matters but also the intensity distribution.
In hunter gathers, all but five minutes of... See more
Extended time in the danger zone results in almost certain weight gain and Metabolic Syndrome.
Mark Sisson • The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
This graphic should be seared into your brain if you are middle-aged and not looking after yourself. Early onset of physical and metabolic frailty is your future if you don’t start doing something about it. Do not wait. Start now.
[The dotted line in the above graphic represents the prognostic exercise capacity... See more