Dr. Andy Galpin

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Okay, so why do I think skeletal muscle is so special?

Well, I want to break this into two parts.

The first is the quantity of muscle you have, and the second is quality.

Now, the quantity of muscle compared to other organ systems, say your immune system, your brain, central nervous system, or even like your bones, skeletal muscle is the one you have the most control over with lifestyle factors.

So what I mean by that is it is the one you can manipulate the most to alter your physical appearance.

Now you may want to look a certain way or not another way, that's entirely up to you.

But skeletal muscle is the place you will go to determine that.

Of course, you can reduce the amount of body fat you have overall with lifestyle, but it's hard to really pick that from a certain space or place on your body.

For example, if you wanted to lose fat on your triceps or the back of your arm,

or on your legs or so, it's really difficult to target the fat loss in that area.

It tends to come globally, a little bit from everywhere in your body.

But skeletal muscle is different.

You can absolutely focus entirely on growing your calves or on one arm relative to the other or anything else you want to do.

So again, of all of the different organ systems and structures on your body, it is the one you have the most control over to determine how you look.

That said, I want to focus more on the second part of our discussion here, which is the quality of the muscle.

So the functionality, what it's providing to your body, and how it's helping you navigate through the world.

So remember, skeletal muscle is the direct interface with the world.

I know folks that are in the neuroscience department, people like Andrew, love to give all the credit to the nervous system and the brain.