Transcript
Starting in your 30s, you're starting to lose muscle mass. So, the more muscle you can put on, the better your metabolism, the more balanced your hormones are going to be, or just that's your baseline answer. It's only going to benefit you to have muscle. And then again looking at you want to have functional fitness. So if you're continuing to lose muscle, you're continuing to lose bone mass, all these different things, muscle's going to continue to help with that as you age. And getting bulky, especially later on in life, man, you have to try hard to get bulky. You have to be eating so much food, you have to be eating very specific as far as even like specific supplements and things you're taking. I think a lot of the bulk that we feel as women, it's actually more like adipose or like extra fat or like water weight and stuff that we feel like hormonally, because Yeah. Yeah. you feel that even shift like during your cycles. Like, "Oh, I feel like ugh." And it's like it's not that you're bulky even though you kind of feel like that, it's just like that extra bloated water, like different things you carry.
The Dr. Axe Show is educational and not a substitute for care from your clinician. Disclaimer
