Muscle is an incredibly important tissue that is a crucial part of your body’s health.  Having a well-developed body with enough muscle mass isn’t just for looking good – it’s for promoting a healthy body and living a full life for as long as possible.

A helpful way to understand this is to think of body’s muscles as your body’s internal “savings.” As you work out and your body converts the protein from your diet into muscle protein, you create muscle “deposits,” similar to depositing money in a savings account.

Just as a bigger bank account can help you do the things you want to do in life financially, bigger muscles help you do the things you want to do physically.  And just like when hard financial times come – like when you lose a job unexpectedly – a healthy savings account can help you keep your head above water, when your body has a crisis – like becoming seriously ill or injured – your body draws on your muscles for protein reserves. The bigger the reserves, the easier it is to recover from a crisis, physical or financial.

If you don’t currently exercise and still feel great, you can likely thank your youth for that.  However, this free pass at health won’t last forever. If you’re still young, you need to preserve your advantage for as long as you can so when you start to lose muscle due to aging, you don’t become frail and weak.

#HealthyMusclesMatter