Dr. Vonda Wright

And muscle is critical for helping control that glucose balance because when there's too much circulating, it is stored in fat.

There's only so much our liver can store, about 2,000 calories worth.

And then the rest of it has to be stored somewhere.

And I'm going to tell you for sure that I find...

In joints where we shouldn't have this, because I'm an arthroscopist, fatty stores.

It's like putting fat into the closets because there's nowhere else to put it.

We have so much excess energy.

Our body has to store it somewhere.

It stores it in fat and then it shoves the fat a lot of places.

You should not have big layers of fat in our shoulder joint, in the hip joint, for instance.

But yet I find it there pretty frequently.

That's right.

In a more efficient way instead of just storing it in any convenient but unhealthy fat globule.

Well, we know that when we just calorie restrict, we lose, depending on who you read, 20, 40, 50% of the total weight on the scale in muscle.

We will lose fat, but a large portion of what we lose will be muscle because our body has a hierarchy of needs.

Our body perceives certain tissues like bone and muscle as not only functional but storehouses.

You'll lose fat, yes.

Well, listen, when people are sick in the hospital for a week, it's estimated you can lose 9% of your muscle mass from laying still.

Yeah.

Cachexia and being ill and drawing from your muscle as a source of energy can lead to profound changes.