Can strength training increase my metabolism?
Watch as functional Medicine Specialist and family physician Dr. Mark Hyman explains how strength training could increase your metabolism.
Transcript
So how do you avert this disease called sarcopenia that drives everything else? It's very simple. You build muscle.
And you have to keep building it, especially as you get older. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Sarcopenia, that's a big medical word. But what it means is muscle loss. And it happens inexorably as we get older.
And we lose muscle, we gain fat. So we can even be the same weight that we were at 25 when we're 65, but we can be twice as fat.
And what that happens, when that happens, our metabolism is slowed down.
So how do you avert this disease called sarcopenia that drives everything else? It's very simple. You build muscle.
And you have to keep building it, especially as you get older. So strength training, anything that builds muscles.
It can be yoga. It can be resistance training. It can be weights. There's a million things out there that'll build muscle. But the key is building muscle.
And it has enormous impact on building what we call mitochondria, which are the little factories in your cells that burn energy and calories.
So you build more mitochondria, they work better, you build more muscle, and you actually burn more calories in your sleep. So how bad is that?
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