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Why Muscle Predicts Your Cancer and Heart Disease Risk | Ep 482
Most people start lifting to look better, and they treat the health payoff as a nice bonus. There's nothing wrong with that, but the mortality research suggests that the frame is probably backward.
Your muscle and strength are the keys to longevity, with your physique and how you look a nice side effect.
The evidence here is large, in some studies hundreds of thousands of people. One simple measure of strength predicted death better than blood pressure.
I look at what that means for the two outcomes most of us worry about after 40, cancer and heart disease, including a detail about how cancer…
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