Why Muscle Predicts Your Cancer and Heart Disease Risk | Ep 482
About this episode
The episode discusses how muscle and strength are critical predictors of longevity and health risks, particularly cancer and heart disease.
Most people start lifting to look better, and they treat the health payoff as a nice bonus. There's nothing wrong with that, but the mortality research suggests that the frame is probably backward. Your muscle and strength are the keys to longevity, with your physique and how you look a nice side effect. The evidence here is large, in some studies hundreds of thousands of people. One simple measure of strength predicted death better than blood pressure. I look at what that means for the two o...
Topics covered
- muscle health
- cancer risk
- heart disease
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