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Simply maintaining muscle mass requires a considerable amount of calories. Our bodies evolved to function with the least calories possible. So, if you aren't
by maxcan 9y ago
Simply maintaining muscle mass requires a considerable amount of calories. Our bodies evolved to function with the least calories possible. So, if you aren't using your muscles often, the body will catabolize muscle to save energy. If you are using your muscles, and thus signaling to your body that you need more of them, your body will devote energy to hypertrophy and increase muscle mass.
The current regime of near universal caloric surplus is not something our ancestors ever faced and evolution left us very little tools to deal with instinctively.
- thaumasiotes 9y ago> The current regime of near universal caloric surplus is not something our ancestors ever faced and evolution left us very little tools to deal with instinctively. This depends on your ancestors. Demographics with a long history of agriculture are much less vulnerable to diet-induced diabetes than, say, native Americans are. Some people will eat to gorging when faced with more food than they can eat, and some won't.
- cbanek 9y agoThat's super interesting about demographics with a long history of agriculture. Do you have any links for further reading on that?
- barry-cotter 9y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1323307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1323307/ Diabetes and Mexicans: Why the Two Are Linked https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932342/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932342/ Diabetes Mellitus: A “Thrifty” Genotype Rendered Detrimental by “Progress”?
- Aron 9y agoHow many calories do you think it takes [to maintain] +1 lb of muscle mass, with same activity levels? [Hint: It's not the broscience 50]