Suggestion for communicating about your health to your medical doctor.
If your medical doctor doesn’t agree with your nutritional handlings, you have to remember he wasn’t trained in building health, but in arresting disease (which comes in handy for all of us)
You might educate him/her by showing the doctor what you have been doing, and why and what he/she needs to know. Some doctors will not like it, but most will be really be thankful as they are taught that they will always need to do a continuing education regarding their practice of medicine.
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Build Muscle, Build Health
Hey, Its Dr. Martin here/
Once you hit 30 you lose 3-8% of your muscle mass per decade. And you start to lose even MORE than that once you hit 60.
To make matters worse studies show that as you age and lose muscle you gain fat mass. So, when you age, your body wants to LOSE MUSCLE and GAIN FAT.
This means you need to actively fight against that.
I want to share with you why building muscle is one of the most important things you can do for your health. In fact, one of your health goals SHOULD be building muscle.
Let me start by saying something you’ve never heard about muscle, especially from your doctor. MUSCLE is an endocrine organ. I know that muscle isn’t *technically* an endocrine organ but it should be. Your endocrine system, which is made up of all the body’s different hormones regulates ALL BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES (including blood sugar) in your body from your birth until you die.
Your endocrine system is made up of 8 major organs:
1. Hypothalamus
2. Pituitary
3. THYROID
4. Parathyroid
5. ADRENALS
6. Pineal Body
7. The OVARIES
8. The Testes
(You most likely recognize many of the endocrine organs because I always talk about them).
Since most doctors only consider muscle part of the “musculoskeletal” system muscle is completely ignored when it comes to health especially when it comes to hormonal health.
But that can’t be farther from the truth. If you don’t have enough muscle — All your hormones suffer.
Let me share with you four surprising things muscle does for your health:
1 - Your Thyroid Suffers If You Don’t Have Enough Muscle
Without getting too deep into the weeds your thyroid makes and secretes a few hormones, two of which are critical T3 and T4. All you need to know for now is that T3 is the ACTIVE hormone.
T3 is a potent metabolism regulator. You need T3 for energy, and you need T3 to lose fat. Basically, you need T3 to live. BUT and this is big 94% of all the hormones your thyroid makes come in the form of T4 NOT in the active T3 form.
This means you have to convert T4 into the active form T3 so that you can breathe properly, have a regular heart rate, be at a normal body weight, have muscle strength, have a normal menstrual cycle, keep a balanced body temperature, and have a healthy nervous system.
Once your thyroid makes T4 and T3, they both LEAVE your thyroid and travel through your blood to get to other organs where the conversion of T4 to T3 happens. So, once your thyroid has made T4 and T3, it has done its job. The thyroid doesn’t have to do ANYTHING else.
It’s now up to other organs to convert the T4 into T3.
Well, one of those organs that converts T4 into T3 is your muscle.Want a healthy thyroid that isn’t sluggish? Build muscle.
2 - Your Metabolism Suffers If You Don’t Have Enough Muscle
Your muscles are one of the central storage units for glucose.
Let me explain what that means EVERYTHING you eat gets broken down into glucose. Some food turns into glucose fast while better foods (eggs, meat, and cheese) take a long time to turn into glucose.
Glucose is highly toxic to your health if your blood sugar levels go too high or get too low it can be deadly that’s why your blood sugar levels are TIGHTLY regulated by your body.
So if you overeat energy and your body doesn’t immediately need that energy. Then the extra glucose has to be removed from your blood ASAP And moved into storage.
As I mentioned earlier your muscles are one of the primary storage units of excess energy consumption. If you are losing a significant amount of muscle mass every decade you’re losing a lot of storage and that’s a big problem for our metabolic health.
Because you’re losing storage your blood sugar levels can start to climb higher. Maybe not high enough to be a diabetic but high enough to increase your risk of every disease.
You also end up secreting a lot more insulin because your body is desperately trying to get rid of glucose from your blood.
Once you start making too much insulin that’s when all the problems start:
• High inflammation
• Hormone issues
• Pain
• Brain problems
• Low energy
• Weight gain
• Skin issues
• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
… to name a few.
Also since you’ve lost storage space your body will put more glucose into your liver and fat cells. It will also pack a lot of fat around your organs called visceral fat.
One more overlooked benefit of weight lifting. You burn off the glucose stored in your muscles. Essentially weight lifting helps clean out the storage containers. This opens up more room for future glucose storage.
If you want a better metabolism…build muscle.
3 - Your Energy Suffers If You Don’t Have Enough Muscle
Muscle plays a major role in your energy system. Why? Because muscles are loaded with mitochondria.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago…
The batteries inside a Tesla weigh almost 2,000 pounds
Whereas a Honda Civic weighs under 3,000 pounds in total! A Tesla needs a HUGE and HEAVY battery to get over 350 miles on a single charge.
The same is true for you.
You require a lot of energy to run all the trillions upon trillions of chemical processes in your body daily. So, like the Tesla, you need a LOT of BIG and HEAVY batteries.
Well the mitochondria are the energy-producing structures found in cells, acting like batteries. This means you NEED a LOT of BIG and HEALTHY mitochondria.
If you suffer from low energy, you also have a mitochondria problem. You have fewer mitochondria, and the ones you do have are smaller and don’t work as well as they should.
One way to get more mitochondria is to build more muscle. If you want more energy build more muscle.
4 - Your Brain Suffers If You Don’t Have Enough Muscle
Did you know that your brain shrinks as you age? Well, it does, and it is normal. But if your brain shrinks too fast then you’re at serious risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Many things can cause your brain to shrink too fast…
• Fatty liver
• Smoking
• Diabetes
• Obesity
…and lower muscle mass.
If you don’t have enough muscle your brain shrinks much faster than normal. That’s one reason why people with lower muscle mass have much more severe Alzheimer’s.
If you want to protect your brain as you age then build more muscle.
This leads us to the million-dollar question how do you prevent muscle loss as you age? The first thing and the most important is to think of muscle mass building as your retirement savings account.
The more you have in your account, the better. The same goes for muscles.
Since you naturally will lose muscle mass as you age, it makes sense to build muscle early and often.
But what if you haven’t done that yet?
The good news is that you can start building muscle right now no matter your age.
Start lifting weights today.
Also I can’t talk about muscles without talking about PROTEIN.
Few are getting enough protein in their diets.
I’m amazed at how backward and poorly informed most doctors are about protein. I wish they’d keep up with research. You need MORE protein than you think.
To make matters worse most of the protein people consume today is from wheat sources like bread and pasta. And don’t look to the government for advice on how much protein you should eat.
The RDA, the BARE MINIMUM, is 0.8 grams per kg.
That means that women weighing 150 pounds (68kg) need to eat a bare minimum of 54 grams per day of protein. If you’re eating only 54 grams of protein per day you’ll end up with sarcopenia. That’s a certainty.
Get more protein in your diet.
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