Dr. Andy Galpin

Those in the bottom 20th percentile versus the top 20th percentile in terms of how much muscle mass you have on your entire body, well, those in the bottom portion have about two times the risk of all-cause mortality as those in the top.

And so while we certainly are gonna consider functionality or quality most important, quantity matters a lot as well.

So based upon what I've just shared and more that we'll get into later in the show, to me, skeletal muscle is by far the most important organ in your entire body.

Now in order to convince you of that, I'm going to start by telling you how it actually regulates performance across the entire system.

This includes everything from its relationship to how long and how well you're going to live, to how it regulates your blood glucose, metabolism, and overall energy production, to other factors that you may or may not also be aware of.

After that, we'll get into what muscle actually is.

How is the structure and the function of it determining how you move throughout the world?

And then finally, we'll get into the assessment piece.

How do you identify whether or not you have enough muscle?

And if you don't, how do you go about improving that?

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