Why Muscle Matters & How to Build It

...Skeletal muscle, given the fact that it occupies far more space in your body than anything else, is the primary key to physiology communication ... When you don't have enough of it or it is compromised, you're going to see problems in every other area of your life.

Most of your metabolism in your body is actually occurring in your skeletal muscle. In fact, because of this, around 85% or so of the heat you generate in your body is coming from skeletal muscle. It's also the primary place in which you dispose of and regulate blood glucose.

Skeletal muscle is the workhorse. So nothing will actually get accomplished without the skeletal muscle ... Nothing is going to happen in your body, health-wise or actual again interfacing with the world, without skeletal muscle.

Research has shown that athletes are up to 25% more effective at disposing glucose into their muscle than non-athletes.

The quantity of muscle, compared to other organ systems—say your immune system, your brain, central nervous system, or even your bones—skeletal muscle is the one you have the most control over with lifestyle factors.