Dr. Andy Galpin

So clearly there is a relationship between if you have more muscle mass,

you potentially have the ability to create more force.

But that said, if you walked out to the general population or even in athletes, just because you find an athlete who has more muscle, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be stronger.

So again, there's a clear relationship here, but it is not necessarily one-to-one.

In addition, it's incredibly clear and simple that

to increase strength or power without necessarily changing muscle size at all.

These are all protocols we will go over and discuss at the end of our episode today.

But there's a relationship here.

In fact, I think a really nice way to highlight this even further is a recent publication of mine.

Now, this was led by a colleague of mine, Tommy Wood, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington.

And what we did is we went into the national database.

This is what's referred to as NHANES.

So this is a giant national database of kind of a study that they run every single year.

They collect a bunch of data from participants.

They put them into these big open source pools and they may do IQ testing, strength testing, blood work, etc., etc.,

And scientists can come in and use these for any purpose.

Now, they've been running NHANES for several decades.

And so you have many, many, many years of analysis that you can go back into and poke around in.

Well, Tommy and myself and the rest of our team did that.

And in our paper, we found a couple of interesting things here.