Dr. Andy Galpin

And that's fine.

Obviously, that's what's making the decisions.

But skeletal muscle is the workhorse.

So nothing will actually get accomplished without the skeletal muscle.

It's a little bit of chicken and egg here.

I get that.

But in my opinion, nothing is going to happen in your body health-wise or actual, again, interfacing with the world without skeletal muscle.

This is the workhorse of your life.

Now, before we go too much further, I want to back up just a touch.

I realize I've described skeletal muscle as an organ system several times now, and many of you may not know what that means or why it matters.

You see, if you would have gone on something like Jeopardy in 1990 and

and they asked a question of what's the biggest organ in your body, you would have probably said skin, and that would have been correct at the time.

However, hopefully Jeopardy's made a change.

We realized that's not the correct answer.

It is skeletal muscle by a landslide.

So what it means to be an organ is that it secretes something and communicates to other parts of your body.

And it wasn't really until the last 20 years where scientists have identified and realized that skeletal muscle is what we would say not stupid.

In other words, we used to, again, neuroscientists, think that skeletal muscle just is a one-way street.

Information comes in from the nervous system, tells muscle what to do, and then it executes.

Well, we now realize skeletal muscle is far smarter than that.