One insight
Muscle mass matters. Low muscle mass is associated with outcomes such as higher surgical and post-operative complications, longer length of hospital stays, lower physical function, poorer quality of life, shorter survival, and a predictor of poor morbidity and mortality.
One nudge
Even your DNA remembers the muscles you’ve once had. A 2018 study found that, even after detraining for several weeks (and potentially years), your “epigenetic” ability for building muscle isn’t lost, i.e., if you were fit once and lose it, you can get fit more easily the second time around.
One quote
»Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.«
Paavo Nurmi -Finish long-distance runner who set 22 official world records in the 1920s